The Daily Tot 5/20/22

What have I been doing for the past 6 days? Well on Monday is was a monday. So ummm... NO. On Tuesday I had a school field trip and I returned at 6:30. So umm... NO. On Wednesday I was tired after basically having another school field trip except in the woods surrounding our school and Millstone Pond.. which is a pond, so ummmm NO. On Thursday- Well I forgot DUH. So ummm... NO. And before that. Just stuff. That is literally all I can say. Now I shall amuse you with a spectacular (hopefully) poem...

__________________________

The Canary ____________

Stifling heat

Thick smoky air Is this defeat? How is this fair?

Red-scarlet-crimson BRIGHT

Flames singe the sky They will win this fight

The land will fry

Burning the trees

Scorching all Spread by the breeze

The forest will fall

Before Two kids Play in the glade Soon this scene will start to fade

They have matches Of course, they are young The glade is now in patches

What have they become

The next day the headline Is TWO CHILDREN SURVIVED So of course it is fine No need to mention the forest that once thrived

Nothing is left at all Of a kingdom of greenery and the song Of a canary that sings through the squall Of what really mattered all along

Of the histories and stories Of the trees that once stood tall The canary however survives As does the squall ____________________

I'm going to explain this since you probably don't understand. So a canary is a little yellow bird who sings very well. A squall is a fierce snowstorm sort of thing, which is the polar opposite of a fire, so you are probably SUPER confused. I was thinking about those exact two lines ALL DAY, while thinking about something else that I don't remember. It happens sometimes. Even after it lost it all (Many variations of this line including When they had lost all and switching around the order.) The canary sings through the squall. (I thought of squall because it rhymes with all. That is the only reason. Then I turned it into a stroke of genius (I think?)) This is supposed to be an expression about hope in the midst of terrible things like squalls. So the canary singing is hope and the squall is the plight. This thought probably stems from me watching too much A Series Of Unfortunate Events, Though I invented the expression myself. You may wonder how I'm saying that the canary is also not left and then I say it is still there. Well. I am saying that the canary was in the forest and yes it is self contradicting, I'm 11, don't expect me to be Robert Frost or Emily Dickinson.