I am blown away by this beautiful and heartbreaking poem! "Emerald singing / and the thick, brown silence" -- double oof to that.
There was no way I could not write about you-know-what with this kind of a prompt. Tee-hee!
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Because I am obsessed with birds,
I wake not to generic song
but to people I know.
I draw them into my dreams,
write roles for them.
The western tanager is a lover.
He chirrups gently in my ear to say
coffee’s on.
The warbling vireo is an artist
and a loner, and
the one I secretly want.
The yellow-rumped warbler is
sometimes a dark-eyed junco,
but only when he starts singing
way too early, and I am
that dumb.
This is a June kind of magic.
“The warbling vireo is an artist /and a loner, and / the one I secretly want.” I love this! Thank you for letting us into your secret.
What a charming description of your avian friends!
Your anthropomorphized bird companions are whimsical and charming, Rebekah. Thanks for this June magic, which leaves me with a smile :))
I love how you really bring birds to life here. Absolutely magic.
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I am blown away by this beautiful and heartbreaking poem! "Emerald singing / and the thick, brown silence" -- double oof to that.
There was no way I could not write about you-know-what with this kind of a prompt. Tee-hee!
.
Because I am obsessed with birds,
I wake not to generic song
but to people I know.
I draw them into my dreams,
write roles for them.
The western tanager is a lover.
He chirrups gently in my ear to say
coffee’s on.
The warbling vireo is an artist
and a loner, and
the one I secretly want.
The yellow-rumped warbler is
sometimes a dark-eyed junco,
but only when he starts singing
way too early, and I am
that dumb.
.
This is a June kind of magic.
“The warbling vireo is an artist /and a loner, and / the one I secretly want.” I love this! Thank you for letting us into your secret.
What a charming description of your avian friends!
Your anthropomorphized bird companions are whimsical and charming, Rebekah. Thanks for this June magic, which leaves me with a smile :))
I love how you really bring birds to life here. Absolutely magic.