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Date Posted: 13:02:34 06/08/02 Sat
Author: sp99
Author Host/IP: pool-63.53.141.234.nwrk.grid.net / 63.53.141.234
Subject: Re: --The Mockingbird Poems--
In reply to: HGille 's message, "--The Mockingbird Poems--" on 08:33:51 06/04/02 Tue

I like both these poems, first the simpler
one and then the poetic muses of the more
complicated one where the Mockingbird plays
a theme, thank you for the readS!!! SuSanne

>The Mockingbird Sings At Night

>In the dead of night,
>when a blanket of darkness
>and quiet has settled
>over the neighborhood,
>the only sounds one hears
>are crickets chirping,
>maybe a frog or two,
>a dog barking in the distance.
>Then, piercing the night air,
>comes loud and clear
>the varied song of the mockingbird.

>When all other birds sleep,
>from them nary a peep,
>the mockingbird sings
>for all he is worth,
>as though his heart would burst.
>Of what is he so proud?
>Why is it nature�s plan
>for the mockingbird alone
>to sing so sweetly,
>to sing so fervently,
>in the dead of night?

>Why The Nighttime Songster Sings

>In the dead of night,
>the mockingbird sings his cheery song.
>Why he sings is of debate.
>The scientist in me says
>he sings to proclaim this territory his,
>he sings to attract a mate.
>Ahh, but the poet in me says
>the mockingbird accepts as his solemn duty
>to fill the dead of night �
>when all has become dark and dreary,
>when the quiet has grown quite eerie,
>when Man is most susceptible to
>depression and despair �
>with song to speak to Man�s soul,
>to provide reassurance that this blackness
>is but fleeting,
>to remind Man all of life�s beauty,�tho unseen
>in the dead of night, is still there,
>to offer promise of a new day�s dawning
>when light and warmth shall return to comfort him.
>To those who would hear...and understand...
>the nighttime songster sings
>to offer Mankind hope during all
>the blackest periods of his life, just as
>in the dead of night.

>Ya'll are invited to come visit me at
>http://www.gillelands.com/poetry/

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