Bang!
Want was that?
Thud!
Another one!
And again.
Into the conservatory I go
And look up.
There in the roof gutter
A blackbird is gardening.
Thud!
There it goes again,
As he removes moss
From the gutter.
And drops it
Onto the glass roof.
There is now so much there
I can barely see out
The conservatory roof!
Don’t you just love nature!
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Author:
Goldfinch60 (Pseudonym) (
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- Comment from author about the poem: The gutter has now been cleared!
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Oh lol, good write Gold.
Thanks Orchi.
Thanks for sharing UNCLE ANDY ! Love CHRIS BOTTI lovely story and a very laconic & haunting tune. Its gone 8pm Saturday here another lovely Winters day 15C = 59F ! Brain tells me you are due for a scorcher today (30+C = 84F) enjoy ! Loved the concept behind your Poem. We*ve said elsewhere that H.Sapiens lives in Concrete Bunkers & commutes in Steel Tube and works in Concrete Hives largely opting out of NATURE. With a garden (we want a Big One) one encroaches on Natures Teritory and the Beasts - Birds an' Bees like to rearrange it ! Que sera sera ! Its the price we pay for our communion with NATURE : Active in Beak - Hoof - Claw & Paw !
Blessings & Love & Peace ~ To YOU & JOYCE
Yours as always ~ ANGELA & BRIAN XOXOX
Thank you Angela, it is the first time I have come across Chris Botti - he will need some investigation. So much music, so little time.
people pay good money to get their gutters cleared, if you could just train a flock of them friends of yours, maybe you could earn a fortune..... Yes, I certainly do love nature and thanks for drawing my attention to something I would otherwise have missed...... Neville
It is also the starlings that do it as well and they do it in 'gangs'.
Nature is so wonderful.
Andy,
Consider yourself lucky! Thanks to that blackbird, you saved much £££!!
Nature is nature! Gotta love it!
Loved listening to Chris Botti’s musical rendition of the love theme from one of my favorite movies...
Cinema Paradiso!
Thank you for sharing!
My love to Joyce and to you!
~Laura~
Thank you Laura.
Yes nature is so wonderful.
I hadn't come across Chris Botti before so I will have to look further into his music.
Ah yes! He’s very enjoyable to listen to!
I have the same 'problem' - great lumps of moss removed from the tiles littering the path as well as all over the conservatory roof. In addition I have a large collection of sempervivems growing in pots and in gravel. Regularly they are uprooted and tossed all over the place.
It is fun working with nature. In our house back in Kent it collected a few conkers and tried to grow horse chestnuts in pots, within a day the squirrels had the conkers. I told my colleague at work about this and she said she could let me have some as her and her children had collected some, the next day she came in with a bag of about two hundred of them. The squirrels had the all, consequently whenever I dug the garden I would find conkers!
I tried again in our present house and have two horse chestnuts in pots in our garden (no squirrels) they must be about fifteen years old now and stand about four feet high.
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