Written as part of Weekend Wordle #5 at A Prompt Each Day, which gives a set of ten words as inspiration, I’ve used all ten and Sunday Scribblings #79, where the prompt is “Garden”. Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, in their Transforming with Nature’s Wonders segment, asked to write a poem from the view of a bird, butterfly etc. and write about the picture given. This poems is from the view of a song thrush. I’m also sharing it with The Tuesday Platform AND with Poetry Pantry at Poets United. Image Source: Canola Field in Luoping, by Fanghong (Wikimedia Commons).
The First Song
taking wings, I fly, my home is vast,
garden of gardens, love that will last;
in the sun’s warmth, I see jewels glow,
on the tip of leaves, a beautiful show.
through my feathers, a gentle breeze,
it kisses gold petals, the top of trees;
it traps a tuft of the gardener’s hair,
as it searches for stories everywhere.
the land’s daughters, carrying pots,
smiling as they work, worries forgot,
birdsong in the air, and my first song,
butterflies, bees, it’s where I belong.
deep into the hills, my journey goes,
first memory, this will be that I know,
I share my home, with rivers, streams;
to many, this is the home of dreams.
(© 4th July 2015)
You always do these different points of view justice. Lovely words to describe this lovely picture.
Glad that you liked the poem and felt I did it justice, Jb. 🙂 I enjoyed writing the poem.
Home of dreams, yes it is! 🙂
🙂 It looks like it for sure, Sims. 😀
Couldn’t have put it better 🙂
Beautifully penned!
Thank you, Sanaa 🙂
Beautiful.
Thanks for visiting.
The pleasure was mine. Glad you liked my poem too. Thank you, Gail.
This poem is absolutely wonderful. It’s like I can see everything you see with a bird’s eye view. I smell the air – see the trees – it’s like a movie in my head! You did a wonderful job with this prompt! So glad this was the first thing I read today 🙂
Glad you enjoyed the “bird’s eye view”, sumyanna. It literally was that! 😉
Wonderful. The cadence is lovely and playful, yet serene at the same time.
Thank you, Björn. 🙂 Glad you liked the poem.
Nature always inspires great poetry, doesn’t it? I liked the wonderful description of the picture 🙂
Nature always does, yes 🙂 Glad you liked the poem, Reema.
“The home of dreams” indeed. It’s a sweet place I can easily imagine.
Looking at the image, even I felt so. 🙂 And the poem flowed easily. Thank you, Alice. 😀
Lovely lines. ” land’s daughter’s with pots” awesome. It took me to the land. Looks like a land with no worries. Dreamland. Does such land exist now? I wish it does, somewhere.
I think it does, somewhere. There might even be such a place where we don’t have any worry, and that matters too. 🙂 Glad you liked the poem, Ajay.
Sounds very inviting to me! A lovely and sweet rhythm. Thanks. k.
Thank you, ManicDaily. 🙂 Glad you liked the rhythm.
this is so beautifully written with much imagination! loved every bit 🙂
Thank you so much, Hummingwords 🙂
Such beautiful song of nature flowing with the breeze…………….
Thank you and glad you found the poem and song beautiful, Vandana 🙂
beautifully written
Thank you, Cifar.
great rhythm all through. the images you have described above made me to go there right now. the poem was an invitation to the reader.
Thank you, totomai. Glad the poem felt like an invitation to that garden. 🙂
A first song is a set in a precious landscape. A beautiful, descriptive poem.
Thank you, Gemma. 🙂 Glad you felt it was beautiful.
a beautiful home indeed…i specially loved the glowing jewels on the leaf-tips…
As did I, Sumana. 🙂 Dew drops are so wonderful in the light of the rising sun!
We can often get caught up in thinking that the world and its parts exist only for OUR experience, forgetting that we have a role in the experience of others (like a songbird, per your example).
Yes. And that experience is something else. No one can truly put it to words, I feel. Glad I could try to. 🙂 Thank you, Lowe.
How easy it is to see through the eyes of that bird in you poem.
Glad that it was easy to see from the “birds-eye” view, Old Egg. Thank you so much. 🙂
What an amazing sense of joy and beauty you have conveyed in these lines!
Thank you, and am glad that joy could reflect in my lines, Kerry. 🙂
This poem has a dreamlike essence to it. Quite beautifully penned.
Thank you, Mary. 🙂 Glad you liked the poem and felt it was beautifully penned!
This flies along like a songbird..beautiful and uplifting
Glad that it didn’t jar. 🙂 Thank you, Jae.
This was beautiful and you did the poetry form justice. Well done 🙂
Thank you, Kim or Lisa. Glad you felt I did the poetry justice. 🙂
luv the boundlessness of your being as poet Vinay, Have a nice Sunday
much love…
Poetry is freeing, and I’m happy to be so, Gillena. Thank you 🙂
This is very beautiful, a vivid description of “the home of dreams.”
Thank you, Sherry Blue Sky. 🙂 Glad that I could make it vivid.
such beautiful scenery you paint.
Thank you, Nataša. 🙂
“I see jewels glow/on the tips of leaves”—what beautiful imagery you’ve painted here.
Thank you, and glad you liked the imagery, Conscious Cacophony. 🙂
what a fun poem to read. it is like an escape to the beautiful and calming farm life, for me that is. thanks!!!
It could be that. Absolutely, Jamztoma. 😀 Glad you had fun reading it. Thank you. 🙂
Full of joy in every detail! Thank you.
Thank you. 🙂 That’s a joy onto a joy, Rosemary. Glad you liked the poem. 🙂
So peaceful in harmony with nature … lovely 🙂
That’s one way of finding peace, isn’t it? 🙂 Thank you, Loredana.
Lovely and lilting as it flits through that beautiful piece of landscape. Wonderful marriage of words and image,
Elizabeth
https://soulsmusic.wordpress.com/2015/07/05/black-all-over/
Glad it worked, that marriage. 🙂 Thank you, Elizabeth. I enjoyed reading your piece as well.
Your poem makes us wish we were birds! I like what you make us see of nature.
We already wish that deep down, I think. 🙂 Glad the poem invoked that. Thank you, Gabriella.
A beautiful first song…I always feel I belong closer to nature.
I feel that too, Donna. 🙂 I don’t get to be too close to it all the time though. Glad you felt the poem, and the thrush’s first song was beautiful. 😀
What a wonderful, spirited romp through the countryside. A joyful piece, beautifully rendered.
Thank you, and glad you liked the poem, Wendy. 🙂 It was more of a spirited flight of the imagination! 😉
A very fun poem, quite pastoral.
Thanks a lot, glmeisner. 🙂
Very fine! It would be neat if birds were aware of the joy and dreams they gave us.
It would be amazing if they were, yes. 🙂 Glad you liked the poem, susan.
The subconscious mind gets in tune with the nature as we read this beautiful piece,, Leo. This is an exceptionally beautiful 🙂
Thank you so much, Panchali ji. 🙂 Glad you felt it was beautiful.
A beautiful poem, could be a song….I love it….!
Glad you love the poem. 🙂 thank you, Annell. 😀
This is a beautiful song of nature. I love it, would love to visit it, hope my dreams carry me there.
I hope your imagination and dreams carry you there too, Myrna. 🙂 Glad you liked the poem.
Home of dreams! It goes perfectly with the image. Living in the lap of nature, ah! Lovely picture, lovely words! 🙂
Yes. Nature and its beauty makes for a wonderful home, even in imagination! 🙂 Thank you, Tarang.
What lovely imagery Vinay!!
” traps a tuft of the gardener’s hair”.. Gorgeous !!
Reading this , I was reminded of Tan Twan Eng’s Garden of Evening Mists…
I’ve read only a bit of that novel, Gigi. 🙂 But it’s a beautiful one I feel. Glad you liked the imagery. Thank you so much. 😀
Amazing, i felt as if i am flying like a bird 🙂
Glad that you felt like that, Alok. 🙂 It feels like the effort worked, so I’m thankful.
I put this to a mental tune, but would love to hear your version!
Quite bad at reading poetry out loud, Kim. 🙁 But I shall try one day. 🙂 Hope you liked the poetry.
The idea of the breeze searching for stories everywhere…great image!
Thank you very much, thotpurge. 🙂 Glad you liked the image.
I wanna go there too!
Mottus you be so good :*
Glad you liked the poem, Paaru. 🙂 Maybe one day, such a place will be very near. 😀
Such beauty and peace in your descriptions!! I’m so glad you joined the challenge, thank you!!
Glad that you liked the poetry, Hannah. 🙂 Thank you very much for the challenge.
Very picturesque, Leo :)The words and the picture remind me of a long-ago trip to Munnar.
Munnar? 🙂 Have to go there one day. Maybe take a snap of nature like this. 😀 It’d be inspiring, I think. Thank you so much, Cookie. 😀
I like how this verse kind of gallops along, as though along the rows in that gorgeous painting. Nice!
It’d be wonderful if we could do that, wouldn’t it? 🙂 Thank you so much, Marian. 😀
How one wishes to make that home of dreams a permanent home of reality…
Yes. It’s a dear wish for all, I guess. Thanks, SSJ. 😀
Oh! That does look like a beautiful place to visit. Maybe one day…
Maybe one day, I shall find that place too, Suja. 🙂 Thanks!
such beautiful imagery made me wish i was a song thrush too! 🙂
The image did that for me too, Apala. 🙂
Quite like those last two lines/
Thank you very much, Timoteo. 🙂
What a lovely capture of the image…I love the free flowing beauty of your words.
I’m glad you liked the poem and the image it brought about, Susie. Thank you. 🙂
Beautiful ending Vinay! It gives a perfect finality to the dreams of many!
Hank
Yes. It kind of does, doesn’t it? 🙂 Thank you, Hank.
Wishing I were a song thrush… 🙂
Me too, Pooja. 🙂
I loved your poem for poetry sake, Leo. The words just settled upon that space between thought and tongue so well. Do you know what I mean?
Glad you loved the poem. I think so, but I’m not quite sure if what I think you mean is what you mean. So best, to clarify it now… what did you mean, Ninot?
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