Canary in a Coal Mine

While at my desk, I heard a song

Through open window morning long

A bird in yellow brightly worn

A tweet and twitter lost and forlorn

In that wistful song I heard

A forgotten place that once felt near

A place in time, and thought, and space

Like nostalgia brought from a lost childhood taste

So I wrote, painted, sang,

Joined by friends who did the same

Our muse was this song of old

A paradise that had been so…