The Insect Orchestra
October 20th 2007 15:29
The Insect Orchestra
A garden receiving,
the call to spring,
flushes with greens,
and blushes with blooms,
summoning a slumbering,
insect orchestra.
On a cyclorama,
of pinking sky,
crowds of clouds create,
puffy white parades.
Numbers of nimbus,
corral cumulous,
causing pauses,
in their procession,
producing a proscenium.
The heavy scent breeze,
summons them all,
these insect musicians,
to their verdant stage.
Morning sun's warming,
raising house curtain,
promoting a prelude,
of croaky throaty rasping.
Cicadas calling singly,
form duets then trios,
quintets to septets,
till finally merging,
into a rhythmic,
choral thrum.
Bees underscore in chorus,
as blowflies scream soloist,
through weaving wasps',
wavering beat.
Throughout the day,
bugs boom away,
till dusk descends,
for the insect orchestra’s,
final curtain.
A garden receiving,
the call to spring,
flushes with greens,
and blushes with blooms,
summoning a slumbering,
insect orchestra.
On a cyclorama,
of pinking sky,
crowds of clouds create,
puffy white parades.
Numbers of nimbus,
corral cumulous,
causing pauses,
in their procession,
producing a proscenium.
The heavy scent breeze,
summons them all,
these insect musicians,
to their verdant stage.
Morning sun's warming,
raising house curtain,
promoting a prelude,
Cicadas calling singly,
form duets then trios,
quintets to septets,
till finally merging,
into a rhythmic,
choral thrum.
Bees underscore in chorus,
as blowflies scream soloist,
through weaving wasps',
wavering beat.
Throughout the day,
bugs boom away,
till dusk descends,
for the insect orchestra’s,
final curtain.
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Comment by Mr Nice Guy
Pop Culturist
Pop Rock Factory
I'm there with you brother.
Think you'd love some of John Whittier and Alexander Smith's work.
Stay well.
MNG
Comment by Lilla
From The Home Front
Enviro Warrior
Dream Herald
Esoteric Bookshop
I really enjoyed this poem ...reminding me of pleasant evenings sipping wine, in my swing chair ... out in my own 'jungle' ... well written, I could hear them all...
Thanks for such a pleasant jaunt.
Lilla ...
Comment by Louie
randomthoughts
Phil's Wellness Tips
Love everything about this from the title down. I am actually sitting with my laptop in the Sun listening to an insect Orchestra right now. The only thing missing for me to complete the image is the lack of clouds here, but you created them perfectly.
Awesome.
Comment by Mountain Fog
Infognito
Screen Trek
QUOTE ME NO QUOTES!
cheers matey
fog
Comment by Mountain Fog
Infognito
Screen Trek
QUOTE ME NO QUOTES!
thanks for the lovely compliment, and wish we were both in the "jungle" having a few larrfffs amidst the orchestral cacophany! (hmmm...wished I'd thought of that phrase last night...orchestral cacophany!! not bad!! hehe!!)
cheers my friend
fog
Comment by Mountain Fog
Infognito
Screen Trek
QUOTE ME NO QUOTES!
thanks soo much for such wonderful praise..."I am not worthy"...said in Wayne's Worldesque speak...hehe!
I too am writing as they drone and drum and thrum away on this sunny Sunday, yet I have one solitary puffy white baby cloud waiting out my window, from inside my little asbestos clad computer room, such a charming look...but at least I have a little space for me to squeeze out my thoughts in!
Reminds me, I got a lotto last night..so who knows???
I might next be writing from the deck of a gorgeous clipper sailing through the meriddean blue!
cheers
fog