Spring concert in 4 movements
a single blackbird
chortles his mating song
and then a challenge
back and forth they sing at dawn
filling the morning with spring
first light of day break
two blackbirds challenge with song
a third adds his voice
back and forth the music goes
nature shames Vivaldi
larks and finches
greet the morning sun
twittering happily
from a blackbird solo
now this vibrant symphony
spring has come
each voice adds it’s counterpoint
ah – life’s symphony
lovelorn song-birds sing their songs
to please their future spouses
© G.s.k. ‘15
single black feather
reminder of dawn birdsong
or E. A. Poe
slithering shapes
lizards run helter-skelter
down the stone walls
© G.s.k. ‘15
Bastet and Sekhmet's Library 
i can imagine the joy
if people sang
more like these birds 🙂
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filling the air with spring song
humanity blossoms
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The concert imagery works so well here — shaming Vivaldi, indeed!!! It’s beautiful and it brings a smile!
And – um – you have lizards there now?
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YES!!! I’ve seen and photographed lizards (they’re wee things right now) yesterday! I’m going to put one up for the ‘nudity’ haiga tomorrow 😉
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Farfel is up for tomorrow’s nudity prompt 🙂
Tied to One Word challenge, too — only “mauve” photo I had ANYWHERE.
Lizards! See, this cold-blooded-Yankee just can’t relate to lizards wandering the streets — NAKED, no less! Shameless! 😉
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I read it .. and it was cute … I could sympathize with her wanting to get out of that gear!
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She hated coats of all kinds — but when her fur was short she needed them, poor old thing.
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I can understand her … it’s so binding for them I think. But understandable that she’d need it after a fur cut.
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If the coat was too long she’d drag her hind legs like she’d been paralyzed! You didn’t know whether to laugh or be frustrated! LOL
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I’m sure she felt that it was sort of silly exchanging her natural coat for the man-made variety!
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Besides, it’s less fun to roll in stinky things when Mama can just throw the coat in the wash. 😉
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LOL … and the lizards are really shameless!
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I’d heard that they can be quite persistent and fearless … so it’s true then? 😛
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Well … now this little guy was actually running away from me. I suppose when they get bigger, but for the most part our lizards are a shy lot.
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He is kind of cute, in a lizardy sorta way 😛
I may be a bit biased against them after having to deal with the kiddo’s “anoles” for too long. Hated the feeding — we gave them live crickets dusted in this icky vitamin powder. Think “cricket shake-n-bake”. o.O
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Yuck! I think I won’t think of cricket shake-n-bake!
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It was nasty.
And occasionally we’d get a ‘large’ cricket with the ‘small’ group – and it would sing in the middle of the night. It was an experience 😛
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Again … not my cup of tea. For me lizards can stay outside!
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Well. The kiddo won lizard #1 at the fair. And we couldn’t say no. Then of course, George was lonely and needed mate. Hence lizard #2. Whose name is lost in the (somewhat powdery) mists of time.
Never again! 😉
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