Summer Sounds
The Cicadas sing so loudly
Drowning out everything
Except the airplane
Soaring, roaring overhead -
But the Dragonfly is so quiet
As it daintily alights
Upon a pinker than pink
Lotus blossom
Then takes off in flight
In a nearby weeping willow tree
A Robin sing somewhere above me
His warbling song
An aural delight of myriad notes
But I came all this way
With bulky binoculars
Hoping a Hummingbird
Or two - would appear
Just as I had planned
But they had other ideas
For I thought I heard them
Snickering nearby
At my hubris for thinking
I could coax them out of the trees
Just for my benefit!
For Laura Mackenzie's "Sounds of Summer" contest
Copyright © Corinne Curcio | Year Posted 2010
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