# Watching You Watch the Birds [Poem by Mom]
Author: Dwight Gingrich
Author URL: https://dwightgingrich.com/author/dwight-gingrich
Published: 2015-01-16
Category: By Elaine Gingrich
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Meta Title: Watching You Watch the Birds | Dwight Gingrich Online
Meta Description: Who watched when rubies first took wing? / Who gazed attentive, open-mouthed, / As you do at flash of feather, / Swoop and swing...
Tags: Adam, watching, birds, -Genesis 1:31, creation
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**This month I’m sharing a poem that Mom wrote about her first grandson**, my nephew Curtis, when he was about 8 months old. I’ll add a few pictures and then let the poem speak for itself. I think you’ll like this one!

(See [here](https://dwightgingrich.com/two-trees/) for an introduction to this monthly series from Mom.)

If you enjoy the poem, **[leave a comment here for Mom](http://dwightgingrich.com/watching-you-watch-the-birds/#respond)**, or send her an email at

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.  Thanks!

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![PhotoofCurtis2](https://prod.superblogcdn.com/site_cuid_cltmr6s080011pelc74knn9b3/images/photoofcurtis2-1721353259715-compressed.jpg)My nephew Curtis, watching.

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**WATCHING YOU WATCH THE BIRDS**(to Curtis)

Who watched when rubies first took wing?

Who gazed attentive, open-mouthed,

As you do at flash of feather,

Swoop and swing,

Your eyes dreamy, wonder-focused,

Face as fluid as first love,

Following dip and dart of winter birds—

Robust redpolls flocking the feeder

Like ruddy-faced farmers at an auction,

Cheeky chickadees in formal attire?

Perhaps an audience of angels,

Abandoning anthem to learn a new roundelay,

Or listening to one of Heaven’s hymns

Transposed into flight of feather, oriole’s melody.

Watching you watch the birds

I see Adam waking,

That first dawning of awareness,

Those first steps taken,

A world to explore,

A Designer to worship.

I am certain that when from God’s fingers

Birds flew

He thought of you,

A small child’s delight, infant’s laughter.

He knew what He was after.

Reflected in your eyes

I see the face of the Creator watching you

Knowing that what He has made is very good.

– By Elaine Gingrich, February 2008

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_PS:  As I’m finishing up this post I just noticed something: By happy coincidence, today is the birthday of Curtis’s dad! Happy birthday, brother! 🙂_

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