My New Alarm Clock

New Alarm Clock

I have a new alarm clock

It didn’t cost a penny

It’s sweet cadence let’s me know

When it’s time to start another day.

It requires no batteries,

Doesn’t run on electricity,

Requires no daily winding.

Has no blinking lights or

Red numerals that light up.

There is no snooze button,

No buttons to set the hour or minutes.

It is all automatic,

The tone of my alarm clock

Is most pleasant to the ear,

Not like the loud beeping of my old one.

I do not awake now to “Fisher and Peggy’s” 

Morning conversation

Or

Pre-programmed music.

But come 6:00 a.m. on the dot

My new alarm clock sounds off.

Next to my bed it isn’t

But, right outside my window.

Morning light is barely stealing the night away

As I hear

“Chirp, chirp,” and then a little “trill”

Repeated over and over

As my little Robin Red Breast

welcomes the new morning

Telling me and his fine feathered friends

It’s time to get up

Time’s awasting.

Natures’s alarm clock,

My new alarm clock,

Is soon joined by others.

Their combined warbling

Makes for a very pleasant awakening.

Nola