White Egrets

julieclair

White Egrets: Poems | Derek Walcott

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I love driving into my neighborhood in the evening and seeing these guys. 💟

Kristy_K, DebinHawaii, TheBookHippie, JenlovesJT47, Reggie, TheSpineView, dabbe, lil1inblue, AnnCrystal, bellabella

bellabella So fun! They really are like fluffy cotton balls! 1w

JenlovesJT47 💛💛💛🐝🐝 1w

TheSpineView Hoe pretty! 😍😍😍 1w

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AnnCrystal 🤩 Amazingly Beautiful 👏🏼😍👍🏼🐝💝. 1w

BooksandCoffee4Me Beautiful! I see them in the water ways in our farmland here, but never in trees. 😮💛 1w

dabbe I would get in a car wreck because I would be totally #gobsmacked looking at them! 💛🐝🖤 1w

Reggie Sooo good! 1w

julieclair @bellabella @JenlovesJT47 @TheSpineView @AnnCrystal @Reggie 💛🐝💛 1w

julieclair @BooksandCoffee4Me They spend their days in the waterways here, too. They only come to the trees towards evening. I read online that they like to spend their nights in trees/bushes because they‘re safer from predators if they‘re off the ground. That makes a lot of sense, since our alligators can‘t climb trees. (Although occasionally one does manage to climb up a few steps!) 1w

julieclair @dabbe I often see people pulled to the side of the road looking at them! 1w

DebinHawaii Wonderful! 💛🐝🖤I love the cattle egrets here too. I see them on the highway & in the neighborhood. I especially love it when they follow yard guys with leaf blowers single file to pick up insects & things they might stir up. Makes me smile! 1w

julieclair @DebinHawaii That‘s a hoot about the yard guys! Smart birds! 6d

lil1inblue What wonderful imagery! 😍 6d

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ravenlee

White Egrets: Poems | Derek Walcott

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I don‘t read a lot of poetry, but I found this one pretty enjoyable. Some travel involved (Walcott was from Saint Lucia, and these poems feature the Caribbean, Italy, Spain, and the U.S, among others), nothing wild or crazy. They‘re deceptively short and simple, but it was nice to linger on some of them. #52Books23 #byaCaribbeanauthor

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squirrelbrain

White Egrets: Poems | Derek Walcott

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I‘m not a huge fan of poetry but enjoyed this book, I think because they weren‘t too ‘odd‘.
The author is from #saintlucia #readingtheamericas2023.

Many of the poems are set in the Caribbean, but we also visit France, Amsterdam, the US and Italy, as in the poem above that compares summer on Saint Lucia and in Italy.

I‘ve managed to do another #quadrupledip with this one ⬇️ although I‘m sure I won‘t be that lucky going forward!😁

Librarybelle, BarbaraBB

squirrelbrain #booked2023 #inmemoriam @Cinfhen @alisiakae @BarbaraTheBibliophage 2y

Cinfhen Well played 🙌🏻🎊 2y