TheBanyanTree: Song of Spring

[Theta Brentnall]

I don't know that I slept better last night.  The frogs were so loud 
that when they shut up, it would startle me awake - if they would just 
keep going, I would have gotten more rest.  The coyotes were after 
something in the orchard next door last night and the feral roosters had 
a crowing contest about 3 a.m. (it's not true that roosters only crow at 
dawn.  They crow any time they darn well feel like it.)  What does 
happen at dawn is the pair of geese who have staked out our pond as 
their nest site start yelling and screaming at the other geese who have 
the unmitigated gall to try and land on their pond or in their pasture.  
Ah, nature.

Theta

On 3/22/2012 8:13 AM, Julie Anna Teague wrote:
>
> This is beautiful, Theta!
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> Isn't it wonderous?  I am sleeping so much better now that I can have 
> the windows open and the cool air and night sounds floating in.  
> Coyotes howling at our place the other night, so beautiful and eerie.
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> Quoting Theta Brentnall <tybrent at gmail.com>:
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>> *Song of Spring*
>>
>>
>> Balmy night and open window
>> let the song of spring inside.
>> Amphibian orchestra
>> from piccalo to bassoon
>> sing of love and blooming life.
>>
>>                   Squeekeep squeekeep
>>
>> Squeekeep squeekeep
>>
>> *Squeekeep squeekeep*
>> Kerreep kereep
>> /*Hummrupp*/
>> Squeekeep squeekeep /Squeekeep squeekeep/
>> Kereepkereep
>>             Squeekeep squeekeep
>> /squeekeep squeekeep/
>> *Hummrupp* Squeekeep squeekeep Kerreep kereep
>>             S*queekeep squeekeep* /*Squeekeep squeekeep*/*Hummrupp*
>> Squeekeep squeekeep Kereepkereep *Squeekeep squeekeep* /squeekeep
>> squeekeep/ *Kerreep kereep* *Hummrupp* /*Squeekeep squeekeep*/ ///
>>
>> ~~~silence~~
>>
>>
>> /What's there?  Shhhh
>> coyote prowling
>> car racing by
>> horses snorting
>> /
>> Be quiet, be quiet
>>
>> And then one voice will raise again
>> Bold, or foolhardy?
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>>
>> /Squeekeep squeekeep?/
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>> Squeekeep squeekeep
>>
>>
>> Squeekeep squeekeep
>>
>>
>> *Hummrupp*
>> *Squeekeep squeekeep* *Squeekeep squeekeep*
>>
>> /Squeekeep squeekeep / Squeekeep squeekeep
>> /Kereepkereep/ *Squeekeep squeekeep*
>> **/squeekeep squeekeep/
>> *Hummrupp* Squeekeep squeekeep Kerreep kereep
>>             Squeekeep squeekeep /Squeekeep squeekeep/ *Hummrupp*
>> /Squeekeep squeekeep/ *Kereepkereep* /*Squeekeep squeekeep*/
>> *Squeekeep squeekeep* *Kerreep kereepHummrupp* *Squeekeep squeekeep*
>> ///
>>
>>
>> ~~~silence~~~
>>
>> /What's there?  Shhh
>> Swooping owl
>> Thirsty deer
>> Splashing bass/
>>
>> It's not a restful lullaby the froggy chorus sings.
>> The silences are louder than the song.
>>
>> "Are you awake," he asks me
>> "Yes" I say.  "I'm listening to the frogs."
>> "I don't hear anything."
>> "Yes," I laugh.  "It's intermission."
>> "Go back to sleep."
>>
>>
>> /Squeekeep squeekeep /
>>
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> Julie
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> ~O
> <I~ love to run
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