Haiku #7 from Haiku by Museleon

Crow's
abandoned nest,
a plum tree.

Matsuo Basho

This sound Haiku has arisen due to a dangerous thing for me - a trip down memory lane. Several things and ideas happened at the same time, all based around the one theme - Crows.
I was in the garden and recently the large sycamore has gained some new residents - Crows, which I took some recordings of.
Then I began wondering about the term...A Murder of Crows, which for some reason led me down the infernal memory lane, stopping at a poem I learnt at school (aeons ago), the 'Twa Corbies'.
This poem always fascinated me and the original Scottish version appealed to the gruesome inquisitiveness in me as a child. Most versions of this ballad and the English version 'Three Ravens' are slow and forbidding, as the said Corbies discuss the rich pickings of a fallen Knight.
However, I always thought this was a jolly conversation as the Corbies get a slap up meal at the end and so my haiku ended up, by chance, as a jolly little tune based on an imagined chat between three crows.

If you prefer the more traditional tale here's a favourite version of mine -
Maddy Prior: Twa Corbies - youtu.be/x5Ik8OrT2AU

All sounds used are in the public domain via the Freesound community together with my own field recordings, sounds and music

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