U3A Writing: To An Insomniac Blackbird At 3.45 AM
Alam Lee, with a backward glance at Shelley, makes a poetic appeal to a restless bird.
Thou dark destroyer of my pre-dawn rest,
(O blackbird, you really are a pest!)
With orisons ecstatic heavenwards bound,
And all creation re-echoing the sound!
With trill and scales cascading from your post,
Warbling of wondrous things that charm you most,
Trying to outshine Schubert in his prime,
Sounding so merry -- but just look at the time!
Your sunrise concert is well rehearsed,
You sing as though your heart would burst.
All other birds their silence keep;
Blackbird, why don’t you go to sleep?
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