Ode to a Noisy Nightingale

Written for the June 2018 round of the Twisted Traditional Poetry Contest, but it didn't place

Ode to a Noisy Nightingale

All night that frightful nightingale will sing
a song so shrill and sharp I cannot sleep.
I'll suffer while he warbles on the wing
and can't relax by slowly counting sheep.
I yearn to wring his pretty feathered neck
or blow him clean away with just one shot
so that I might recline without his din.
He's made my life a wreck
by sticking to his nightly singing slot.
Sleep deprivation is a deadly sin.



10 lines in the structure of Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44479/ode-to-a-nightingale

"Poetry Newsletter (June 20, 2018)" 

Cover photograph by Carlos Delgado - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40703551