The catbird
Acknowledged
My presence
I saluted
Him
And he
Shocked me
By
Staying with me
He then
Flitted
To the bath
And he
Sipped
Thrice
After each
Dip
I felt his reach
Author: T.M. Shorewick
Avian Laughter
At the colors of
My clothing
The eyes above
Are laughing
The catbird
Takes a second look
He is heard
What a schnook
A Carolina Wren
Says anything goes
And then
Wets my drying clothes
The crow
Can't be bothered
He does know
What’ll be laundered
The red tailed hawk
Knows better
Don't bother to stalk
A gaudy two legger
The owl
Can see when dim
But would cowl
At my fancy brim
Mourning doves
Would laugh coo-ie
In droves
To my couture screwy
Robins rarely leave
The lawn
But would schieve
At my sartorial spawn
How do birds tolerate
Human dressing
Rarely they ate
Raiment so distressing
Why do Saints and AI Ignore Me?
Why won’t
Any saint
With infinite font
Email me to acquaint
And no
AI bot
Could know
All the troubles I got
So they
Are both superior
And play
With this inferior
Can there be
Some solidarity
Where humans are free
A spiritual cyber community?
Where digitized hope
And belief
Lets folk cope
With human strife
The Digital Jesus
The digital Jesus
Will never
Delete our soul
But forever
Let us scroll
And battle
With AI
To settle
What is from the sky
Or that carbonic
Which overwhelms
Our spirit symbolic
But lacks eternal realms
Of perpetual genius
It’s Early Evening
Its early evening
And thunder clamors
While receiving
Bird like rumors
Of what will happen
When a storm
Comes rappin
Upon an avian dorm
The air chills
My ears deafen
An insect trills
My soul smitten
It gets darker
More quiet
Deadfully starker
Than a riot
She is maybe here
She is maybe here
But probably not
Certainly she marks
What we call here
But that blot
Ignores
Holy smears
What is not
The way
Life does convey
Upon crazy
Creatures who lay
In the way
Of life
And sway
Selling strife
But she is lost
Noise
And poise
At no cost
I’m Following A Brahms Symphony
I’m following
A Brahms
Symphony broadcasting
And it calms
But my
Relative
Would just sigh
As I strive
Throw out
Bull shit
And shout
Just quit
But Brahms
And I
Share no qualms
Reaching the sky
Mid Spring’s Oratorio
It’s early
Mid spring
And the birds
Just
Run this place
An oratorio
In every space
Lust
Without words
A simple thing
Being horny
His keyboard Music was Intended for the Harpsichord, Organ, or Clavichord.
So says Google
Admitting the piano
Was invented during his life
But never sounding well
In any resurrection
Of Bach’s keyboard gamble
Take a bugle
Blow it in any seraglio
Then find a wife
Who would tell
Bach the new direction
Of clavicular scramble
Poetry Month’s Reality
Poetry needing
A date
Something pleading
A month’s fate
But it be
Weird
That we see
The feared
Truth
That Poetry Month
Forsooth
Rhymes merely with month