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Tuesday, January 6, 2015

YOUNG CARDINAL SINGS

If I could raise
my song high in the sky
my song would be for love:

But alas, my song
has too heavy notes
too full of all my woes.


    Do you like to listen to the bird songs?  Can you write a poem today about songs or singing?  Or perhaps you'd like to write about a bird you know.  David Elliott has a lovely picture book filled with poems about birds.  On the Wing is illustrated by Becca Stadtlander, published by Candlewick Press.  There is a video here of several of the poems.

2 comments:

  1. What could make the bird's songs more lightweight? How about hope? I'd love to see the cardinal's songs rise, even amid woes. How about a happy ending? After all, cardinals sing, "Pretty-pretty." Would you consider it? Pretty please?

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    1. Great thought, Linda.
      See, this poem deserves more stanzas. I'll work on it.

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