A Valentine For The Birds

This poem offers a bird’s eye view of a Valentine’s Day craft project at the Center. Every February, our elders affected by dementia made birdseed hearts to take home and hang in their yards. Made with love…and a dash of jealousy.

Transcript

We sat outside under the olive tree.

Someone measured the seeds.

Someone measured the syrup.

Someone wanted to stir.

Using spoons and fingers,

Everyone pressed the sticky seeds into greased hearts.

Everyone made a valentine for the birds.

For the birds,

Cried the man who liked to stir.

And they get to fly.

Under fiesta sombreros.

Under the olive tree.

Laughter.

In many languages.

Reviews

“Laughter in many languages”: this short sentence stays with me…thank you🙏🏻🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🙏🏻

I love this poem. It makes me smile to think of a community coming together to make the birds a valentine and enjoying each others company.

💕🤗 lovely

Thank you. I can relate I’m a bird lover. I love the added bird singing.

So sweet 👏 Love the birds tweeting. The prose made me chuckle. 💝 Birds deserve Valentines 💝

So beautiful. Thank you, Kelly. ❤️🕉✊

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I'm grateful,humble Beautiful inside and out.Im an Actor,Model,Christian with Love ,courage and a Purpose AmeN 🙏 ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

Loved this!! Thank you!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Thank you for this beautiful meditation today I get to enjoy life today I get to be a better person thank you for pointing me in the right direction today my friend Namaste 💛🙏🏼

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Very nice!!! Short and sweet !

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Beautiful. Thank you for sharing this with us.

Lovely, just lovely :)

Beautiful, I can picture the lovely scene and laughter. Thank you for sharing your poem.

Thank you 🙏 🐤🐦 sending gratitude and blessings 🙏🙏

That was so lovely thank you Namaste 🙏🏻

Short, sweet, and joyous. I will likely listen to this every morning. It made my heart smile.