Someone Who Chats With Me

Early evening at the computer I sit

Letters to old friends I often write

E-mails to some, we correspond

For Friends I cherish, makes life a delight.


Mother Nature furnishes us with friends

At Calico Meadows, they need not fear

With legs to run and wings to fly

Across the meadow and yard they appear.


In the tall hedge, across from my window

There is a bird that nests in there

To a tomato ring by the window, he flies

Looks as tho' he's lonesome, I swear.


At the computer, the keys are clicking

I start to make a clicking sound

He hops around a little nearer

At the clicks, he must have found.

Vina Carathers

September 19, 2003

With each sound of this clicking

Closer and closer, the windowpane he's found

He looks in at me as if to say

"What the heck is that mysterious sound?"


While we conversed, back and forth

Where he sits and stares at me

A picture of him I really must have

To prove it's true, don't you see?


In early evenings, I like his company

While at the computer I sit and write

Then out the drive and off to the South

He raises his swings in a beautiful flight.


I bet tomorrow again he'll come

To chat with me again

I'll be on the computer, waiting for him

Watching for him at my windowpane.