They're Prunella modularis Latin's little singing plums dwellers of the dense hedgerow more musical than sparrow though warbling lusty harmonies ascending into vernal skies shy as any Jenny wren wicked wantons like Don Juan Dunnock's feathered duds are dun songbird with a nut-brown crown
Just 44 words for De’s quadrille prompt ‘Bird‘. the poem’s title refers to the genus of this bird – though commonly called a hedge sparrow to which the Dunnock is unrelated
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Laura, I love your “little singing plums” ❤
Latin has it thus though a derivative too of German Brun for brown
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I, too, am struck (and spellbound) by “singing plums.”
Beautiful, Laura.
thank you De- and for hosting the bird
Delightful rhyming quadrille
much love
many thanks Gillena – makes a change for me to find some rhymes!
Our sparrows do gather in hedges, but they are not shy, nor musical. Thanks for introducing me to this lovely bird. (K)
I love your poem, Laura.
You completely captured me with ‘little singing plums’ – such a sweet and earthy (albeit no doubt exact) translation of the Latin. Altogether a delightful evocation of a bird which, in my country, I’ll never encounter. I’m glad to make its acquaintance here.
What a wonderful poem about this little singing plum.
I LOVE the “little singing plums” and “the songbird with the nut brown crown.” Wonderful.
I liked the ‘wicked wantons’ though I pronounced it ‘wontons’ and got a little hungry.