Hawk Friend

The camera loves Tennerin, and he manages to look beautiful, without trying in the least. The poem, “Hawk Friend” was written for Tennerin as a record of my feelings for what he has done to change my outlook on life. I hated winter before Tennerin came, but now I look forward to it.

The pictures below the poem are by Guy Morley, photographer extraordinaire!

Renee Prince

Hawk Friend

Hawk is on my mind, hawk has gone to sun.

Your destiny in summer trees with fledging young.

One day in a lifetime years ago you flew down to me.

From the blue sky world without end

You chose to land in my world and called to me, a lonely friend.

Each falling autumn twilight you shared with me.

Every cold and raining winter you came back to me.

You accepted a name from my dark still earth.

Your gift a feathered touch that gently thawed my frozen heart.

Now how it feels to call the hawk and see you come

Has swept the snow and turned it all to sun

Upon my mind and in my heart.

Hawk is on my mind, hawk has gone to sun.

The winter is gone, the spring has come.

Somewhere you build the beautiful nest

And every night as you settle to rest

My love unfurls on wings to you, my warm heart sings to you

Who woke me from my snowdrift sleep

And set me free to glide and sweep

Across the blue sky world without end

Like you, my friend, a hawk again, gone to sun.

Please check back for added photos and video, too, of Tennerin and his human friend, Renee. And for a story about Tennerin’s amazing powers, read an excerpt from the upcoming book The Hawk Diaries in the section so named under “Writing Life”, which you can access from my home page. RCP