Today's Bird- the Blackbird
The National Bird of Sweden
By Lightning Bolt ⚡Published 6 months ago • 1 min read
Turdus merula
~~🐦🐦⬛🦉 🪶 "A blackbird doesn't have to change its tune to suit the times." - Marty Rubin
"At the sight of blackbirds / Flying in a green light / Even the bawds of euphony / Would cry out softly" - Wallace Stephens
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Symbolizing death,
rebirth, change, transformation
no sign of bad luck
___________________Bolt⚡
First, the Beatles. Then, Beyonce.
Sing a song of sixpence /A pocket full of rye; / Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie! / When the pie was opened the birds began to sing,
Oh, wasn't that a dainty dish to set before the king?
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Comments (6)
Black birds are my all-time favorite. Thanks for giving them their due shout-out!
Black birds are so cute. Now I have the nursery rhyme going around my head..
I am curious, why did you include Beyonce’s version?
Omgggg, that rhyme! I recited that for a contest when I was 8 and won 2nd place hehehe. Loved your poem!
I love blackbirds and I love The Beatles’ Blackbird, which is a Paul McCartney’s masterpiece and one of my favourite’s Beatles’ songs. But that Beyonce ruining a song so badly it’s a musical crime. That woman doesn’t have the voice for it, to begin with. She doesn’t have a good voice, full stop. This is the first time I tried to listened to this cringing woman attempting to sing a beautiful song and I couldn’t. I had to stop listening after exactly 54 seconds because her voice was hurting my ears. Literally. If before this I thought she had no musical talent at all, now I think … I will keep this to myself. She is a total disaster.
Beautiful. Relaxing to listen to