Crows flying over
local corn fields, like Battle
of Britain bombers.
skat@2017
My Life In Runes …
little everyday verses
Crows flying over
local corn fields, like Battle
of Britain bombers.
skat@2017
My Life In Runes ... 
Good one. Very stark and ominous.
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Thanks. They are actually flying our neighbourhood to the fields on the outskirts. I had never seen so many at once!
Actually, now I’m thinking they are seagulls. We have inland seagulls, which baffles me. Now that the sun is rising higher, I don’t think that it was crows at all! 😂
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Thank you!
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Nice evocative haiku. Seagulls in the U.K. Are now called gulls.
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Well, that makes sense! I just have a hard time losing the “sea” appellation. I was around for “Johnathan Livingstone Seagull”.
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That’s the second mention of Jonathan Livingstone in a few days in comment chat. The other was on my recent post Gull.
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I saw the poem in my e-mail, but not the comment. Now, if you happen upon the book in your travels, that will really be something!
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I need to scour our bookshelves.
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Murder most fowl. Sounds like a scene by Van Gogh
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Except they turned out to be gulls!😂
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I’m rejecting that theory, crows, murder, too good!
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We have crows as well, but in smaller collectives.😉
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Good, we Welsh are partial to crows, them being ‘mythic.’
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When we first moved here, and the area was being built up, a crow used to sit on the roof behind us and caw when bad weather was coming. We called it the “storm crow”, and so we have an unofficial name for our own house: Storm Crow House
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Superb, what a great name plaque that would be.
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When we lived in the city we had a name plaque on our house. It was called The Hyggehus. We made it up from the Danish for cosy and house. My husband’s background is Danish. I’d love to have a Stormcrow House plaque!
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The Hyygehus is a lovely name, hard to improve on that. Our house name is ‘Digonedd,’ the Welsh for ‘enough or plenty. Isn’t ‘Stormcrow’ one of Gandalf’s nicknames?
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I like that “Digonedd”; is it pronounced the way it looks? Not sure about the Gandalf.
We live in a townhouse-1 main level with a loft and a finished basement. I often think it’s too much. I believe in living with no more than you need. Right now though, it suits with my mom living in with us. She has most of the main floor.
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It’s Dee-gone-edd with dd as th in ‘there’ . Ours is a newish three bed detached in a small country village, too big except that we’re rarely without some urbanite visitor. Sorry for the delay in replying, the days slipped away.
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Take your last sentence here, and reflect it back from me! Thank you for the pronunciation, I like to get these things right.
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