Lute Fairy©Heather Barratt
The Fairy Song Catcher
I witnessed a small miracle
In my apple tree
A song catcher conversing
With lively finches, three
A fairy musicologist
Renowned throughout the realm
Plucks wondrous fantasias
In pine tree, oak, and elm
On this sun-kissed, springtime day
When life has taken wing
The forest bard is listening
To how the finches sing
“Sing to me my feathered friends
Celebrate the skies!
I praise your lovely melodies
And how you harmonize”
“I’ll compose accompaniment
Upon my willing lyre
And find the right arpeggio
To which we may aspire”
“To write a birdsong madrigal
Your voices share a place
With cardinal, wren, and nightingale
The doves will sing the bass”
The aves gathered right on cue
Fairies did abound
My garden, now a concert hall
To welcome magic sound
The session lasted through the eve
Such gracious notes I heard
The apple blossoms lit the stage
Of fairy harp and bird
***
Theo J. van Joolen©2011
Inspired by Victorian Fairy Tarot by Gary A. Lippincott and Lunaea Weatherstone.
In my apple tree
A song catcher conversing
With lively finches, three
A fairy musicologist
Renowned throughout the realm
Plucks wondrous fantasias
In pine tree, oak, and elm
On this sun-kissed, springtime day
When life has taken wing
The forest bard is listening
To how the finches sing
“Sing to me my feathered friends
Celebrate the skies!
I praise your lovely melodies
And how you harmonize”
“I’ll compose accompaniment
Upon my willing lyre
And find the right arpeggio
To which we may aspire”
“To write a birdsong madrigal
Your voices share a place
With cardinal, wren, and nightingale
The doves will sing the bass”
The aves gathered right on cue
Fairies did abound
My garden, now a concert hall
To welcome magic sound
The session lasted through the eve
Such gracious notes I heard
The apple blossoms lit the stage
Of fairy harp and bird
***
Theo J. van Joolen©2011
Inspired by Victorian Fairy Tarot by Gary A. Lippincott and Lunaea Weatherstone.
Spring©Gary A. Lippincott. Link to Victorian Fairy Tarot.
The Fairy Song Catcher was published in the Fall 2011 issue of Circle Magazine.
Circle Magazine