False Alarm
Dark wake or sleep
Blinking LED
Battery charged
Beeping below the birds
Nightingales sing at dawn
Defending their territory
Louder in cities
To be heard
Security
Cannot be reached
The code is lost
The siren sings to no one
Ears in vain
–Ticky Kennedy
Poet in Residence
SchoolNewsToday.com
NOTE
Nightingales have adjusted the volume of their song to urban environments reaching levels violating European sound level regulations.
“Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain/To thy high requiem become a sod. “John Keats, “Ode To A Nightingale”.
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