Mockingbird
How different the songs are at night
a solo performance of each bird of the day
who so often are only background noise
competing with mowers and engines and children.
The mockingbird has no such competition
Warbling and chirping and calling in the dark,
master of mimicry, performer extraordinaire
but talent tinged with sadness,
for in this perfect performance of reflected melody
Is no note of the mockingbird’s own.
©2010 Noreen Braman
How different the songs are at night
a solo performance of each bird of the day
who so often are only background noise
competing with mowers and engines and children.
The mockingbird has no such competition
Warbling and chirping and calling in the dark,
master of mimicry, performer extraordinaire
but talent tinged with sadness,
for in this perfect performance of reflected melody
Is no note of the mockingbird’s own.
©2010 Noreen Braman
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