.
The sounds of birds
fill the air everywhere,
CHattering, chITTering, TWITTering,
ScrEAMs, hOOts and kwAAKs.
Listen and hear,
bring to the fore(ground)
of your ear.
Hark hark the lark,
the HAdeDAs
and the little LAdeDAs,
background music
whilst we work.
.
©Denise G Allen, 16 February 2013 09:50
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16/02/2013 at 10:50 am
That is what it sounds like here, adee 🙂
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16/02/2013 at 11:10 am
And here some days, Hope. 😀
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16/02/2013 at 4:18 pm
Such symphony, Denise – no man made instruments can match.
Cheers, Eric
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16/02/2013 at 5:20 pm
And such a variety, Eric. Wonderful!
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16/02/2013 at 6:56 pm
I wait to hear
the blackbird sing
I know it foretells
the coming spring
Thank you Denise.
John
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16/02/2013 at 7:25 pm
That is lovely, John. I haven’t heard any Piet my Vrous here at all this last spring or now in summer. We heard only a few when we were in the Pilanesberg. Odd.
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16/02/2013 at 7:49 pm
From Google I find that “Peter-my-wife” is a cuckoo relative, Denise. I learn something every day!
Thank you.
John
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16/02/2013 at 10:21 pm
Yes, I wrote a poem some months ago where I mentioned him… If I remember correctly, he is a red-breasted cuckoo.
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16/02/2013 at 8:35 pm
smiles…love the sounds you get in your words here…lets me hear them…love listening to the birds…its relaxing…
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16/02/2013 at 10:27 pm
Thanks, Brian, I think the caps work better here than in the last one… 😉
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16/02/2013 at 11:07 pm
In the case of some of them, not so background!
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17/02/2013 at 6:51 am
Aah, yes, Col! 🙂
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17/02/2013 at 8:41 am
Those hadedas never let the suburban johannebsurger sleep in. Just like the kookaburras and currawongs here 😀 Love the onomatopoeic flavour of this poem.
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17/02/2013 at 9:22 am
Glad you liked it. It was an experiment and I got the idea from Brian (above)… I used to live on a farm where peacocks scrEAmed for help on and off every day! 😀
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17/02/2013 at 2:53 pm
Exceptional use of word structure to create melody!
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17/02/2013 at 4:32 pm
I wouldn’t exxactly call it all ‘melody’, Jeannie.. 😉
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22/02/2013 at 11:01 pm
Your Onomatopoeic representation of sounds is so good, Denise. It is the lubricant that has been provided to forget monotonous labor. When there is nothing around, you will hum a tune of your own.
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23/02/2013 at 7:20 pm
Yes and I do that too, albeit under my breath, lol!
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