The windows are wanting a dusting;
They can’t see a thing through the dirt.
And none but the birds are rejoicing.
Their view is a little bit hurt.
The windows are wanting a shower,
The grit and the grime piled high.
The birds who can’t see their reflections
Are keeping their gaze to the sky.
The windows are wanting a cleaning,
The curtains depressed in the gloom.
And carried on wings of the springtime,
The birds are suspecting their doom.
The windows are wanting their changes;
The birds, bless their buttons, confide:
“We don’t want our ending beginning
In windows that shimmer with pride!”
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My attempt at anthropomorphism for Lillian’s prompt at
dVerse.
I’m not sure it hits the spot, but I’m proud of its poetics. 😮 Also a great one for NaPoWriMo day 4.
Mystical Strings 
I love the lilt and repetition in this. The rhymes are excellent. Between the birds and the pains/panes, I surely hope those windows begin to glisten.
Ha! The least likely subject for this prompt and you killed it.
Nice sound to this and it reminds me that I should wash our windows.
When spring sun comes out the windows are screaming in pain.
I think I should wash my windows too…maybe later…
Kind regards
Anna :o]
You had me smiling with the title “Window Pains.” Oh yes indeed…..anthropomorphism definitely! I LOVE the behavioral attributes you gave to the windows….really a clever clever write. Clever clever rhyming too!
And I’m thinking….although now that I look at others’ comment, no one else has picked up on it….the birds at the end of the poem, not wanting their ending beginning in clean shimmering windows….what it makes me think of is the very sad circumstance that has happened when we get our windows professionally cleaned here in our high-rise and inevitably, there is at least one bird who flies into the closed and clean window of my study and there is a thunk, and sadly the bird dies from the impact. So the clean window is the bird’s demise. That sure seems like what you’re saying here? So….hmmmm….using anthropomorphism again, it’s the window’s vanity that is the bird’s demise!
GREAT take on the prompt! 🙂 LOVE it!
Yes, that’s exactly what I was going for, William. Thanks for noticing, And thank you all for reading and taking the time to comment. 🙂
I will be happy to open and clean up my windows again ~ I enjoyed this voice from the windows ~
This has some great flow and rhythm to it!
A lot of window pains happen in my den. A lurking hawk is forever frightening small birds at my feeder such that they fly into my windows with a thud!
Oh, you haven’t seen my windows!!! If windows could talk, they would be cursing me all the way… I love the rhythm and obvious fun you are having with this!