interesting... the native flute is popular around here.
i used lemony sweet to describe my mother's summer
cake...makes for a mouth watering poem. now, if i
could remember which file it is ???
anyway thanks for the link, i sent it to a musician
friend...
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>While these emails are flowing on birdsong etc., I chanced on a recent
>book, by
>David Rothenberg, beautifully written, mostly American, but gets to
>Australia
>for the lyrebird...and has a website:
>
>http://www.whybirdssing.com/
>
>best from Max
>
> > Jonathan Skinner has some lovely little bird-call poems, he's working
> > his way through all the American warblers.
> >
> > There are quite a few online at
> >
> > http://www.onedit.net/issue4/jonathans/jonathans.html
> >
> > He introduced me to the very entertaining tradition of coining phrases
> > that sound like bird calls as a memory device. Calls like: "Teakettle,
> > teakettle, teakettle;" "Beer beer beer bill me!," "Are you awake? Me
> > toooooo." There are whole bird guides full of these, but of course the
> > most fun is to be had going out to listen and inventing them for
> > yourself.
> >
> > So when Jonathan's "Yellow Warbler" opens with the lines:
> >
> > sweet sweet sweet
> > lemony
> > sweet
> >
> > the audible stage is set straight off.
> >
> > --Knut
> >
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