🐾 Maybe the reason I love animals so much, is because the only time they have broken my heart is when theirs has stopped beating.

Monday 30 April 2012

I had a Dove ...


A Laughing Dove in my old Peach tree last winter - a tribute to Flutterby, my little pet Laughing Dove that I was blessed enough to have in my life for 6 months before she found her mate and started a family of her own. 

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I had a dove, and the sweet dove died; 
And I have thought it died of grieving: 
Oh, what could it grieve for? 
its feet were tied With a silken thread of my own hands’ weaving. 
Sweet little red feet! Why should you die– 
Why would you leave me, sweet bird! why? 
You lived alone in the forest tree; 
Why, pretty thing! would you not live with me? 
I kiss’d you oft and gave you white peas; 
Why not live sweetly, as in the green trees? 
- John Keats. 

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Ink sketch and Watercolour wash on Visual 200gsm 

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4 comments:

  1. Such a lovely poem. I long to return to sketching myself...your work is an inspiration.

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    1. Aaah, thanks ever so much, pleased you like it Marme! and yes!! Please get back to that sketching! would love to see some of your work!

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  2. Always love your bird stories Maree!Thanks for this beautiful poem too.

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    1. Rather heart-wrenching... the poem I mean. It touched my heart so and seemed a perfect Ode to Flutterby... Glad you also like it Elizabeth!

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