These poems are about our natural human vulnerabilities. Nature can heal us but also remind us of our limits in a natural world. These poems signal that if we listen nature can reveal her messages.
A blue jay comes to say artists love a muse until she is insistent on their living up to their potential. Ravens cry, death is inevitable, but you can live the life God gave you today. Seagulls are proud of who they are and resist comparison, why can't you do the same? Swans are associated with beauty but the idea of beauty brings out some of our inadequacies and how we may perceive ourselves vis a vis society's standards of beauty...