The Best Guests
Guests for the evening
arrive unannounced
perch quietly outside the window
under the eaves
gone by daybreak –
no laundry to wash
or meals to make –
• • • •
a raven feather waves
a good-bye greeting
from Greek columns
Close the curtains, and don’t ruffle the guests’ feathers.
Sweet Planet Poems 
So happy to have you here, Androgoth. I do believe it about the updates. Sometimes the blogs I follow switch on their own from “instantly” to “never” for posting alerts. Just one of the many things I don’t understand about computers and software programs.
You won’t believe this but I have had no updates
of these last postings that I have been commenting
on my great friend, so how nutty is that? 😦
I like this one a lot Monica…
Androgoth XXx
Thank you for this wonderful comment, Zum!
This is just classic. A little bit of humor and lightheartedness in a very wonderful poem!
Pen, I love this scene – you focusing on the ravens and your ex on the columns. Makes the world go round, as “they” say! Thanks for your lovely comment!
Loving the photo of the Unregistered visitor, Monica, and your Best Guest poem describes the scene to perfection by making me laugh in delight, and so I called my ex to the PC, to have a look-see, and he was more interested in the top of the columns,.. (as to whether or not they were Corinthian or Ionic Capitals.. MY eyes blanked and glazed over, then brightened, I persevered and Googled.. and apparently Ionic 😀 )… You learn something new every day, or so they say… (I always wonder…. who ‘they’ are? ) xPenx
Thanks, Wath! I guess every now and then you have to get away from the roosting crowd.
Thank you, Laz – it was such fun, and they’re such characters
You will, Josh – it’s calling.
Bluebee, that sounds so tropical and magical!
ha ha
I love the last line and the whole idea really.
very nice
I really dig your poem and shots, Dear Monica 🙂
Peace to you,
Laz
These pictures make me miss Yellowstone, I will have to go back soon!
Lovely play on words in this, Monica, and I love that last line 🙂 What a beautiful outlook over the lake from your hotel room. It looks so calm and peaceful.
I enjoy our daily univited guests: colourful cheeping lorikeets (who feast on the camellia bushes when in flower), cheeky cockatoos (who eat everything in sight), fat doves (who eat the weed seed and spread it around 😦 ) and Oscar, the neighbour’s old cat, who comes for his brush
Those were the only two columns they used – what luck! You had to keep the curtains closed, or they would fidget around.
How grand! Wasn’t that just a neat addition to your trip?