Best Songsters Poems

Summer Minstrels and Songsters

Crickets
Summer songsters
Music of the night
Back porch lullabies, serenade
Singers

Newborn
Cicadas buzz
Yawn and stretch in warm sun
Bright eyes see magnolia trees
Minstrels

Summer
Fireflies twinkle
Magic song of stars
Like suspended bits of glitter
Flash Dance

Buzzing
Grasshopper tunes
Vibrate like a drumline 
Invites lovers to sing along
Duets

Chirping
Katydids trill
Rhythmic beats of improv
In pulsating choruses...

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I awake to an early morn, still dark,
to singing birds greeting the day,
Sounds of chickadees and the lark
invade my slumber before sun's first ray,
making sleep impossible to stay.

Wakefullness comes with melodic song,
more soothing than an alarm clock ringing.
As the morning progresses along
more birds join in...

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O PROUD SONGSTERS
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Late winter, early spring,
perky cock robin redbreasts start to sing,
cock blackbirds follow suite,
jenny wrens don't stay mute.
Nature's choirs all astute.
Songsters, all ready for a springtime fling!

Summertime at its hight,
though through the year they sing with all their might.
Evening song, church bells call,
a merry...

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