Cutting grass – a blackbird sings just for me – I delight in its delight of fresh delicacies.
My black friend
Under slow-sailing clouds in shades of white, concluding my war-path on dandelions, and having put up my hammock, I sit and watch first apple blossoms and my black friend, hopping closer and closer in its ritual dance – 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – pause – picking up a worm – 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – within a meter – we look at each other.
Blackbirds are enduring friends in my garden, notwithstanding the occasional mishaps:
https://courseofmirrors.wordpress.com/2011/07/03/major-drama-in-my-garden-all-my-fault/
https://courseofmirrors.wordpress.com/2011/07/22/update-on-the-drama-in-my-garden/
Course of Mirrors 
I love that shot, worm and all!! I too am currently watching my apple blossom bloom, all be it from a garden bench!
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Thanks for visiting. Found your island, from which drift lovely poems.
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Thanks! I’m just back indoors having sat outside on my garden bench. Plenty of goldfinches but alas, no blackbird came close!
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Goldfinches are prettier, with amazing dress-sense.
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I am jealous of their choice of natural style, as for their singing.. a whole lot better than mine.
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Ah, where begins rhythm and meter and dance. Loved those prior pieces, too, which I had not read before.
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Since my encounter the other year I’ve grown very fond of blackbirds. Their sweet song, their rhythmic dance on the lawn to attract worms, their friendliness and intelligence … magical creatures.
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Ah yes, the liquid song and the hole reality – The Blackbird
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Of course that should have read “A hole in reality” which is what they always seem like to me, an absence of light they are so dark.
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🙂 I used an image like that in my first novel – crows on a bare branch, like holes punched into the sky.
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Ah! This is beautiful. What would life be if we could not converse with the birds and animals. Blackbirds are particularly honest and simply go about their day, I like that.
Enjoy the sunshine.B
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I love blackbirds too, such wondrous souls in the garden…! 🙂
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrxZhWCAuQw
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😀 xx Thank you honey!
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I love blackbirds, don’t know why, I just do.
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