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Thanks, Doug and Jill again. I wasn’t going to tinker with it. I was just expaining how it got to be what it is. I will try some night listening. Cheers, Bill On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 at 1:14 am, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Bill, > I think the poem is as it is. I'd leave it. > And, yes, I'd heard that about Sir Paul's ditty, but our blackbirds, > at least, do at certain times of the year, sing a very sweet night > song. Spookily, a couple of times I'd been quietly playing a solo > piano version of said song by Brad Mehldau as I stayed up (obviously > too late) and they were singing just outside, as if they knew. Just > sayin. > Cheers,Jill > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" > To: > Cc: > Sent:Wed, 3 Oct 2018 18:01:42 +1000 > Subject:Re: Blackbird > > Thanks, Sheila, Andrew, Jill and Patrick. I had an earlier stanza > about the > kind of circular singing pattern but I couldn’t nail it so this is > the rump > of that poem. Jill, our blackbirds don’t go for it in the dead of > night but > at dawn we get a lone triller, sometimes a mate too I think. Beatle > Paul’s > song apparently referenced the civil rights movement so it might have > been > a diferent sort of singing in the night. ‘You were only waiting for > this > moment to arise/be free’. > > Bill > > On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 at 5:07 pm, Patrick McManus < > [log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > cheers Bill morning here but different blackbirds UK > > > > liked feeling of just doing!! > > > > > > On 02/10/2018 23:45, Bill Wootton wrote: > > > Take the time > > > > > > to listen to this bird > > > > > > whose only audience > > > > > > is morning > > > > > > > > > bw > > > > > > > ######################################################################## > > > > > > To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: > > > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1 > > > > > > > ######################################################################## > > > > To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: > > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1 > > > > ######################################################################## > > To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1 > > > ######################################################################## > > To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1 > ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1