Dawn Chorus

Woken by the sound of birdsong,
at first a distant tin whistle of a song,
I pull on a sweater and step outside,
where a pink and yellow colourwash creeps across the sky.

When spring is almost at its peak,
with blackbird, thrush and robin spilling music from their beaks,
I can’t help but join in the joyful round
now the dawn chorus has become a wall of sound.

Kim M. Russell, 23rd April 2025

Image by Ronan Hello on Unsplash

On Shakespeare’s anniversary and the twenty-third day of NaPoWriMo, the daily resource is the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the optional prompt is all about birdsong, which has inspired musicians and poets.

Our challenge is to write poems that focus on birdsong. We’ve been given a couple of examples: A.E. Stallings’ ‘Blackbird Etude’ and Shelley’s ‘To a Skylark’.

I’ve written a few poems on this topic, so gleaned some lines and phrases to create a new poem.

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