Henri Matisse, “The King’s Sadness”
No matter how carefully you arrange your ‘do
a hair will fall out of place.
Install a yard of bluebird houses
and they fill with shy, blue birds,
until they house hordes of small wrens
with sharp beaks
and who sing all day long.
Tao Talk 
birdsong? Nothing better than that! :-)
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Not at the cost of the bluebirds in this case. In other cases, yes.
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Beautiful post
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Thanks!
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Oh I love the idea of bird houses filled with singing birds.
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I used to love their singing also, until that particular birdsong came to represent driving out the bluebirds to me. I wish they could share the houses and live in peace.
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Perhaps they are learning from us too be intolerant. Sadness 💔
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oh no :(
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🥲
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It’s a hard world out there. (K)
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I needed a happy one…and this is it.
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Glad you enjoyed it. Something happen?
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Oh allergies…sore throat and miserable.
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Sorry you are feeling under the weather, Max.
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I am in awe of poets like you and realise when I read such as this that I’m a rudimentary poet at best!!
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Remember what you said in another comment about not judging? That includes yourself, Dear Dale. I’m still not sure who poetry is for, the writer or the reader, but I think it is a little bit of both.
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I think you may be right. 😊
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Interesting…on our nature walk in the park, we were shown bluebird houses, with upsidedown tubs to block snakes (maybe squirrels too). Our guide told us there is a gent who comes round to clean out the bird houses and make sure that wrens don’t take up residience!
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Good idea on the tubs. Haven’t seen any snakes near the birdhouses but they might get them at night when they can’t be seen. I could evict the “trillers” as I call them, but do I have the heart to wipe out a nest with eggs and/or baby birds? Not sure.
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I know I have black snakes… But then I don’t have any bluebird nests. the bird houses I have are hangin up in my pines.
This summer I saved a black snake that was caught in some construction hay/netting. It could have been the same one that I saw that was almost as long (width wise) as our double wide driveway!
I don’t think the garden snakes bother with climbing poles or trees. I’m not sure if the black snake would climb a tree. But the Park Guide said a black snake could eaisly climb a smooth pole.
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Yipes on the length of the snake. We have nothing like that around here. Maybe the way snakes can climb without arms and legs is why they have been demonized (literally and figuratively)?
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Snakes have there place. They keep the small rodent polulation down. My famliy had a pet Boa… when I was growing up. But then I’m not afraid of much. I can do without roller costers and horror though ;)
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