The Painful Down Under Duet

DULCET DOWN UNDER DISHARMONY (THE PAINFUL DUET) Down Under it is summer skies And brilliance is the smell with flowers Birds flit about with eager eyes From early dawn 'til blackest hours Sometimes the combinations vary Of birds that fly in flocks or pairs Outside my window voices carry Birds landed by the backyard stairs A duck and parrot squawk in glee Both voices sing without a care The worst birdsong in memory-- Finches and canaries glare. Such pain of eardrums does imply Given a chance in stormy weather Songbirds escape --at least they try-- Tone-deaf birds when flocked together Victoria Anderson Throop © 1/11/13