![Scissortail Oklahoma State Bird, By: Mary Bone](https://i0.wp.com/poetrycatalog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Scissortail-Oklahoma-State-Bird-By-Mary-Bone.png?resize=750%2C420&ssl=1)
Slicing through the air
with a scissor-like tail,
prominent and regal-
master of all he surveys.
He watches while we gather sugar plums
that is made into the finest jams in southern Oklahoma.
Children gather pecans below,
under his watchful eye.
I can still see the scissortail gliding.
wild and free, as we look on in wonderment.