New Day Mood Songs – NaPo 2025 Day Twenty-Three

My poem today was to focus on birdsong.

Melodious Mocker

I was out walking toward some goal
when at just about sunrise time,

you guys.

The day shift is here!
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Sing the same old soprano seven song,
so mezzos cannot
harmonize with you
like angels in the morning.

My horrible hearing
and the beats over my old ears
cannot cover
your high-pitched wakeup call.

And sheesh!
You are so impatient
with your cousin, sir mourning-rain-dove,
who does male’s coo-woo in alto-tenor to match
a mocking marking starling of Spring—
in this part of what was once, Mexico.

Thanks for waking me up!
Now, what’s for breakfast?
Since you seem so damn happy
to fly and to be alive and free to be.
Well, you know what they say.

Look both ways. They don’t call it “the birds and the bees” for nothing.
Mind the gaps because when winter ends and there is no rain,
the choir still must sing on.

11 thoughts on “New Day Mood Songs – NaPo 2025 Day Twenty-Three”

  1. Now that’s a way to start the day! This was delightful, Bill.

    The birds are so loud in my neck of the woods – especially during spring – that I can never leave my bedroom window open. I’m all for waking up to the sound of birds, just not at 4 am…

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      8. I thought I had not posted it, but I had. I hit “post” and reposted an older version. Anyway…Day 25 going up in a minute. 🙂

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