Monday, May 22, 2017

MORNING SOUNDS

Today's Quadrille of exactly 44 words
is to use the word "Sound".
Submitted to dVerse
May, 2017



                                   Cardinal issues morning address
                           Instructions for wife and children, no doubt

                           Sound of distant crow committee meeting
                                      Apparently much to discuss

                               Rat-a-tat-tat of pileated woodpecker
                                You’d think he’d have a headache

                                   Small jet landing at little airport
                                          Race driver coming in? *

                                              Must be morning.

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Welcome morning sounds
Fall pleasantly on the ears
Time to face the day

*It is May in Indianapolis, home to the vaunted
500 Mile Race.  

20 comments:

  1. Love the purpose of the birdsong... they sing for themselves and not for us... and usually it's probably not so polite as the song might seem like.

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  2. "distant crow committee" ... I love that. :)

    This is my favorite line: "Rat-a-tat-tat of pileated woodpecker"

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  3. I like to listen to the sounds of morning, too...especially the birdsong, the trains rolling into Reno down by the river and my dogs shaking awake. Nice one, Beverly. Well, good old Google. Sometimes she lets me publish using my Wordpress blog and sometimes she doesn't. On second thought, it's got to me male, don't you think?

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  4. wonderful collection of sounds...all in the pot. Good ears Bev.

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  5. Wonderful imagery and action here . Liked the personification of the cardinal.

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  6. Love the personifying of the birds! (Oh, the Indy - now THERE is sound!)

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  7. When you're blind you feel sorry of he deaf, when deaf you feel for the blind, when arthritic you see the paralyzed all about--so it is good to be a poet whose senses are all engaged.

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  8. Those are the greatest sounds to wake up to, birds. They sound off here about first light. If i'm awake at the time, it's nice to hear them issuing their orders. I like the way you said that. I knew those cardinals thought they were in charge

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  9. LOve all the sounds coming from the birds ~ I find it funny imagining them in a committee meeting, smiles ~

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  10. Gotta love 'crow committee meetings'. Wonderful poem, Bev!

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  11. I love all the bird songs and activity in our yard. Some mornings it's like Grand Central Station out there!

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  12. LOVE the way you've described these morning sounds....especially the committee of cows :) Smiling I am. Great response to the prompt!

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  13. I usually recognize morning by the light, but I should pay attention to the sounds as well.

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  14. Yes, this is the way to awaken in the morning, not the bleep, bleep, bleep of the alarm. :)

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  15. "Instructions for wife and children" Great!

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  16. Love the personification of the birds!❤️

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  17. I like how you've created stories about the bird sounds...I often wonder about the meaning and feelings in their calls, sounds and songs.

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  18. I've often wondered if pileated woodpeckers get a headache. ;) And I love that you moved from the sound of birds to the race car. Nice touch.

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  19. I love the sounds of birds in the morning, even the woodpecker's which unfamiliar me mistook for successive gun reports. :-)

    Happy day to you. :-)

    ~Imelda

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  20. lovely to know the sounds that start your morning and greet you, very varied sounds i must say - thank you for sharing a piece of your day

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