Tomorrow is election day in our province. Have you had it with polls? I hope you have the patience for just one more.
Duck Pond Poll
Crows are campaigning
for the abolition of eagles and hawks.
Starlings are a pollster’s nightmare
can’t make up their minds about anything.
Ducks hang around the path
in true socialist fashion:
Why get ambitious when most walkers
carry birdseed or bags of bread?
A solitary heron is the pond’s pundit
but he doesn’t look optimistic.
Chickadees with their happy-go-lucky
pine-branch somersaults and games of tag
are surely too frivolous to vote.
But most of the forest
from robins and waxwings to flickers and jays
go about their business giving nothing away.
Expect a surprise or two come election day.
© Violet Nesdoly (2011)
Have a great weekend – and if you live in the province of BC and haven’t yet voted, get out tomorrow and exercise your franchise!
Violet Nesdoly 