If a rosebud could talk,

Would it hum like the bees?

Or would the petals soft whisper, be lost to the breeze.

If a seashell could talk,

Would it crash like a wave?

Telling off all the mermaids, who didn’t behave.

If a feather could talk,

Would it sing through the night?

Calling out to the bird, who had lost it in flight.

If I could talk to them all

Then so quiet I’d stay,

For if we would just listen, imagine what they might say.

Sioban Timmer

• Submitted in response to Poetry Prompt #20

Sioban says: When I looked at this prompt I originally pondered the connection to each other – nature. Then, what do these things symbolise? What do they ‘say to me’? Then I thought what would they SAY to me and that led to this.