SUMMER’S SYMPHONY
Listen to the sounds of night
Such matchless orchestration
Hear those tiny creatures
Employ their syncopation
Birds sing bedtime vespers
Mosquitoes hum along
Beetles click their castanets
As night breaks into song
Crickets tune their fiddles
As bullfrogs start to drum
Cicadas add a shrill whir
And there is more to come
Dragonflies rattle crisp wings
As they dart out of reach
A watching owl gives forth
With high vibrato screech
An old oak tree creaks a bit
Adding a note or two
Its leaves tap, tap a window
Making their band debut
An earlier rain contributes
A gentle rhythmic sound
As drops of rain plink, plink, plink
From leaves onto the ground
As evening starts its tune-up
Sounds blend in harmony
And the orchestration that is heard
Is Summer’s Symphony
4/20/86 Phyllis DeWitt VanVleck
5’th … PAW (in Pa) 1990