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Midnitesun
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0 posted 2008-04-02 06:13 PM



Cheerful noises rise high
in pale dawn saffron skies.
Ebony night yawns, slips away
as morning rush hour
finds a mixed multitude
of anxious song birds
vying for position
at the backyard feeder,
seeking their fill
before raucous pushy starlings
awaken and confiscate
all the best perches.

City birders awaken
to the symphony of nature
the same as country folk,
when chickadees and sparrows,
robins and finches
are invited to dine
at backyard feeding stations.
It’s an acceptable compromise,
a way to heal psyches
bombarded by too much
electronic technology,
plastic,
asphalt and cement.  


© Copyright 2008 Kathleen Kacy Stafford - All Rights Reserved
Margherita
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1 posted 2008-04-02 06:22 PM


quote:
City birders awaken
to the symphony of nature
the same as country folk,
when chickadees and sparrows,
robins and finches
are invited to dine
at backyard feeding stations.



Wonderful, dear Kacy! You have a special
bond with these bringers of joy I see. I so love to wake up hearing the symphony ... mostly blackbirds here. (I dialogue with them !)

Thank you for this immersion in morning music.

Love,
Margherita

Seoulair
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Seoul S.Korea
2 posted 2008-04-02 06:38 PM


Ah, much lovelier than the songs of those spring birds. Beautiful!!!
Artic Wind
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3 posted 2008-04-02 07:14 PM


Cheerful noises rise high
in pale dawn saffron skies.
Ebony night yawns, slips away..."

awwwww lovely words

ARCTIC WIND

LindsayP
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since 2007-07-28
Posts 3410
Australia, Victoria
4 posted 2008-04-02 08:03 PM



Great write Kacy, we too have a bird feeder

hanging up out side our window and it's

great to sit and watch them at close

quarters, Thanks for sharing.

Lindsay

Midnitesun
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5 posted 2008-04-02 08:05 PM


Margherita, Seoul-soul, Arctic and Lindsay...thank you. Glad to know you are a birder too, Lindsay!
secondhanddreampoet
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6 posted 2008-04-02 08:48 PM


a fine Spring morning 'write!'...

I am especially fond of the beginning:

"Cheerful noises rise high
in pale dawn saffron skies.
Ebony night yawns, slips away
as morning rush hour
finds a mixed multitude
of anxious song birds
vying for position
at the backyard feeder..."

applause!!

2islander2
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7 posted 2008-04-03 05:06 PM


hello midnitesun, i totally share the meaning of this poem...
enjoyed the ending a lot...

  yann

vandana
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8 posted 2008-04-03 06:27 PM


enjoyed
Marchmadness
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9 posted 2008-04-03 10:59 PM


Lovely, Kacy. I love birds and would love to feed them but I have 6 cats and the neighbors have cats too. Most people around here have cats to keep the fruit rats away since almost everyone has orange, lemon,
and avacado trees etc.
                                Ida

[This message has been edited by Marchmadness (04-04-2008 08:35 AM).]

Roniece Dawson-Bruce
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10 posted 2008-04-04 08:57 AM


just beautiful Kacy.. I love seeing the sparrows in my back courtyard, they keep my little bird Oscar company thru out the day! love RDB

Be kind at heart....for everyone you meet has their own battle to fight.........

Robert E. Jordan
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since 2008-01-25
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
11 posted 2008-04-04 09:38 AM


Midnitesun,

The interaction of city people with birds is interesting.  

I have a neighbor who feeds the birds with bread crusts every morning.  He's a nice guy, and always has a treat for my dog in the morning when she takes me for my walk.

Myself, I must admit, I don't care about birds, and always try not to park the car under telephone and electric utility wires.

Bobby

icebox
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in the shadows
12 posted 2008-04-04 09:45 AM



Very nice!

I watched an eagle fishing the other day on the edge of a dammed, and thus drowned, swamp.

Nature has its ways of adapting and of exercising patience with humans and all our foolish ways.  


inkedgoddess
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since 2002-11-19
Posts 7392
Ohio
13 posted 2008-04-04 10:57 AM


a bird pooped
on my laptop !!

we humans are clueless
aint we midnitesun?

love your idylic dreams
in this high tech insanity of mixed blessings.

Ocean Vuong
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since 2008-03-29
Posts 37
NYC
14 posted 2008-04-04 11:55 AM


ah it is refreshing to see such true poetic talent!


bravo my friend, this piece is splendid, do not touch it! Leave it forever, let t sing!


-ocean

CastleGuard
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since 2003-04-30
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Alberta, Canada
15 posted 2008-04-04 12:22 PM



Midnitesun - hopefully technology will never replace Nature's live concert...for that would be a loss unrecoverable...

CG

Seoulair
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Seoul S.Korea
16 posted 2008-04-04 01:29 PM


Your poems are singing on those rose bushes now.
Always beautiful and to read again and again.
love

ArtSolstice
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Posts 498

17 posted 2008-04-05 04:39 PM


This is lovely! We opened the studio with it Friday morning and forward you a firm round of applause for this endearing write from several artists here.
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