When a bird sings to you...
you hear a thing of beauty
When your lover loves you...
you know a thing of beauty
Love and lovers may go awry...
leaving hearts and minds to flounder.
But when a bird again sings to you...
listen ye not for bum notes.
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dusk arising (
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- Comment from author about the poem: \\\\r\\\\nInspired by the poem published yesterday by Fay Slimm.
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Ye have done a fine write dusk. Aww, some people are horrid. They say 'If birdsong wakes me up one more morning, I'll shoot those pesky birds!' Well, they don't say 'pesky' but you get the gist.
I was not expecting that at all, I dunno what I was expecting
not sure I was expecting anything in particular
But bum notes made me smile bigger than a lot of other things might have done...
Tis good to wake up with a smile on ya face.. thanks DA.... N
Thanks Neville. Glad u got that funny side to this.
my pleasure my friend....
Proud that my yesterday effort inspired this outburst of well-written lines D.A. - lovers indeed can end their song of beauty but a song-bird never forgets.
Reflecting upon how loves gone wrong can 'taint' some and picking up the jist of your write, I thought a comparison of a loves approach and birdsong were apt. So many are afraid to dip that toe in deep and appear to be watching out for 'bum notes'. Or as Joni Mitchell asked "Why do you dream flat tyres".
Love the write and that last line is to break wind for.
Was especially written so that us old farts could attune.
Thanks for sharing DA ! Before the time of H. Sapiens ~ Before a Human note was sung or Man or Woman crafted a Musical Instrument ~ the Birds Sang ! And before that the Wind sang in the Trees and the waves sang as they crashed & splashed on the shore.
All Human Music is derived from the *Sounds of Nature* ! Today we drown out Natures Harmony & Melody and delude ourselves that we invented Music and that before Mozart there was just discord & cachophony ! What fools we are !
If only we would take time to stroll in the Woods (without our headphones) and just listen ! We would then realise ~ MUSICWISE ~ WE are really only mimicing ~ Natures Notes after Her ~ AMEN !
Harmony & Melody ~ to You & Yours
Yours ANGELA & BRIAN 🧡💙🧡💙
Totally agree but don't forget that rock n roll was supposed to be the sound of the city. But in the 90's i began to hear of music types such as 'industrial' and 'grunge' which, though i have no idea what defines them, must relate to the noises/music of the modern world to younger ears.
And so life goes on eh?
Thanks DA but in essence ~ thats MUSAK & not MUSIC !
Too ofen CACHOPHONY and not HARMONY !!
Yours B & A 💙🧡💙
Ouch! Hey i'm a musician too and i'm going to remind you that creating music is art. A certain 'Biggy' in the art world cut his ears off because his work was criticised by his contemporaries yet today he is world renowned. Beauty is in the eye/ear of the behiolder. Some art forms are a necessary 'transit' from one 'standard' to another..... though i dislike many forms of music I accept their right to exist, especially if they have a following, as much as i support freedom of speech.
Sorry, that turned into a bit of a rant.... (gulp!)
Thanks again DA ! My (BRIAN) Grandparents (& Parents) prefer the 50s & 60s because they all sang Ballads and milked the words like Bing (b. 1903) Im talking about Sinatra ~ Dean Martin ~ NKC ~ Jim Reeves ~ Johnny Cash ~ Tony Bennett (94 and still 100 concerts per year) and ELVIS (at his best !) They were all Ballad Singers and I prefer them to Punk Rock etc & Rappers ~ one can neither hear nor understand their words. Of course being Scouse Born I see the BEATLES as geneii & revolutionary. Great Poets (Lennon) & Composers (Macartney). John's assassination robbed the World of a Contemporary Icon ! I guess (in retrospect) I was born (1983) 50 years too late ! But at least with *digital remastering* we can all enjoy the Golden Age of Ballad Singing & Country (40's to 70's !) Of course We Both love Classical & Jazz and most genres of MUSIC even Stockhausen !
Yours B & A ~ 💙🧡💙
I love this one. It’s simple but effective. Thank you for sharing 😊
Thank you badday, I though of you and how you would relate this. Better days will come and i hope that for you, one day, the bird of love sings a tune of lasting beauty.
Thank you for being so sweet. I hope so too. 🙂
bummer!!!!!!!
A million laughs
Even songbirds get flatulence you know. Thanks for reading me and glad you enjoyed it.
That is so true....when a bird sings you just never expect a bum note do ya? Wonderful writing DA!!
Was really all about love using the metaphor of birdsong. Those damaged for love should not look for bum notes next time lovebird sings to them.....
Thank you Christina8
Those birds soings are all part of Nature's Symphony where there are never any bum notes.
Like jazz there is never a wrong note, as it is the note you felt you needed to play at that time.
I think it was Thelonius Monk who said his best notes were bum notes or mistakes because in covering them he was forced to explore avenues he would have never pursued had he not made the mistake.... as a novice being brave enough to ad-lib solos within a group i know just what he meant and accepting that bum notes are out there for all of us to drop, it is encouraging for those daring to venture into ad-libs..... we should tolerate others bum notes too as they hone their skills and be entertained by their attempts to self rescue.
The poem was really about love using the metaphor of birdsong. So many look for negatives when love comes singing to our hearts again because of the hurt they carry.
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