Birds on the wires
Nature's music written on man-made structures
Birds call around corners
Unseen singers
Of the mornings.
__
If you moved from the bench
Where your coffee scents the air
You could see them
Singing
But the songs
Sound better for the
Mystery.
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Later on the street
You see them silent
Sitting on the wires.
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Rows of birds
Aviary annotation
Treble clef two-four
Music without sound
Small samples of
Music snatched from
The nothingness
Written by nature on man’s
Structures
Played on an imaginary piano
For everyone
For only you
As you walk
Past.
For this poem and many more, you can find my latest book The Jungle Waits in ebook and paperback on this link (or the local Amazon site for the country you happen to be in) :
About the Creator
Roderick Makim
Read one too many adventure stories as a child and decided I'd make that my life.
I grew up on a cattle station in the Australian Outback and decided to spend the rest of my life seeing the rest of the world.
For more: www.roderickmakim.com
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Add the gentle hum of electrical currents beneath them, & you have an even more complete melding of nature & human artifice.
Whoaaaa, I've never thought of them in this way and my mind was completely blown! This was so brilliant!
I love it when a poem gives me a new perspective on something I barely register. And you did that here, with the birds on wires, likened to music notes on a staff. Brilliant, and such a gorgeous poem. ❤️ "Small samples of Music snatched from The nothingness Written by nature on man’s Structures Played on an imaginary piano" Such an artistic phrase. I absolutely love this. Do you play an instrument?