🎶🎨NaPoWriMo – 30 poems in 30 days – April 2025 – No. 23🎨🎶

#NaPoWriMo #2025

PROMPT #23
Here’s today’s (optional) prompt. Humans might be the only species to compose music, but we’re quite famously not the only ones to make it. Birdsong is all around us – even in cities, there are sparrows chirping, starlings making a racket. And it’s hardly surprising that birdsong has inspired poets. Today, we’d like to challenge you to write your own poem that focuses on birdsong. Need examples? Try A.E. Stallings’ “Blackbird Etude,” or for an old-school throwback, Shelley’s “To a Skylark.”

Happy writing!

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A JOY TO BE HEARD - An English Sonnet

The squawks of magpies, a murder of crows
Sit high in the trees, making a racket.
The day's town engine and human noise grows,
And on my silence starts to attack it.

Then on my way to the recycle bins,
I hear clear notes of music - the blackbird,
Sings his heart out, sweet notes assauge our sins.
His musical range , a joy to be heard.

I can't see him and yet his song enchants.
High on a branch, his notes soar and then fall.
The notes intermingled in sublime chants,
The small blackbird's unmistakable call

Then his song done, maybe, he takes a bow,
His audience is uplifted and how!

©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2025
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