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At a distance,
a mockingbird sings delight for the summer-like day.
In the overgrown lime tree just outside my window
a sparrow nags—
a staccato, monotone note.
Which is more pleasing
to its creator?
Day 11–National Poetry Month
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I’d wager they are both equally entrancing to their creator in their own special way…otherwise, why create them.
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Thanks for this gift today, Victoria. Beautiful write. I had a bad week, I am feeling a bit better. It is hard for me to stay in the present, and stay focused.
Pamela ox
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any that choose to sing
i would say—as long as it is their own song
smiles.
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we are all different, every species here on earth. but in each of us there is beauty.
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I wish there were birdsong here, even a nagging sparrow (in decline in Europe).
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