Friday, August 11, 2023

Background noise

 A Quiet Morning

 

It’s a relatively quiet morning

as I sit on my porch

watching the grass growing

and tiger lilies glowing in the sunshine.

 

A dove coos its four-part song,

bum ba ba bum.

If it was a poet, it would know

that it was trochee plus iamb.

 

A trochaic-chirping sparrow by the fence

waits for me to fill the birdfeeder.

A car crunches on gravel nearby,

reminding me to get ready for church.

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