Day 23 ... NaPoWriMo / Poem-a-Day 2025 // Stafford 97

Maureen Thorson’s NaPoWriMo prompt: “Humans might be the only species to compose music, but we’re quite famously not the only ones to make it. Birdsong is all around us – even in cities, there are sparrows chirping, starlings making a racket. And it’s hardly surprising that birdsong has inspired poets. Today, we’d like to challenge you to write your own poem that focuses on birdsong.” Robert Lee Brewer’s Poem-a-Day prompt: “[W]rite a book poem. Today is World Book Day, which may be one of my favorite holidays moving forward, because I love books. Your poem could be inspired by a book, an author, a character, a scene, and/or however you'd like to come at this one. Heck, write about a bookstore, library, card catalogue, or any other bookish thing you can imagine.” Merged both prompts again . . . I found a fun way to use "birdsong" in an unexpected way (I think) and just barely got a "book" reference in. The poem is a shadorma (a Spanish poetic form with these syllabics in six lines: 3/5/3/3/7/5), a tough, very tight form. Cindy Birdsong was kidnapped, while in the Supremes, at gunpoint. She dove out of the car on a freeway. Like a book hero! —Draft by Vince Gotera    [Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.] Here are the Supremes in 1967. Cindy Birdsong is on the right. And here is Alan's birdsong poem today. Today’s Poetry Prompts Make Me Think about A. P. Carter, so I Wrote an Anti-Capitalist Poem Flipping Off the Music Industry Nature’s songcatcher— hear the mockingbird imitate phrases not claimed as its own, love songs from other birds, as trees break blossom in morning twilight. —Draft by Thomas Alan Holmes    [Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.] Friends, won’t you comment, please? Love to know what you’re thinking. Thanks! Ingat, everyone.  ヅ

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