New Beginnings

Piet-my-vrou (Red Chested Cuckoo)

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New Beginnings

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I awoke to a rain-washed day

With smells of new mown hay,

A clear crisp bite in the air:

The best time of the year.

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Winter’s becoming a memory

While summer waits in the wings

With promises of pleasures sensory

Suspended till the Piet-my-vrou* sings.

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*Etymology

From Afrikaans piet-my-vrou, literally ‘Peter my wife’, supposed
representation of the bird’s call.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/piet-my-vrou

Image: Red-chested
Cuckoo Cuculus solitarius Piet-my-vrou

http://www.stellenboschwriters.com/jillsbirds.html

©DGA 6 November 2011 07:58