Margaret Simon of New Iberia, Louisiana is our host today for Day 22 of VerseLove at http://www.ethicalela.com, inspiring us to write Onomatopoeia poems. You can read her full prompt here as she guides us in writing poems with sound effect words.
Sunday Surprise
Sunday morning we had more birds
than we’d had since cutting down
all our trees for the pine harvest
last year and they’d all come at once
the usual crowd~ chickadee,
woodpecker, titmouse, bluebird
but one took us by surprise~ a
Baltimore Oriole
right here in little old Pike County, Georgia
a cheeb-a-dub, a cheeb-a-dub, a cheeb-a-dee?
sharing the same tree like we’re the
Hampton Inn of traveling birds
Merlin said so, so we checked and rechecked
and crept out to see
discovering all the birds were
not only in the
same tree but the same branch
a symphony of song
all from the same set of bird lungs
cheeseburger, cheeseburger, please?
A Mockingbird – ugh!
with all his invisible friends
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