Today's poem was inspired by a prompt from NaPoWriMo, which challenged participants to write a poem with a secret. The guidelines were that the poem should contain an idea or a subject that isn't expressed outright. This is my attempt, and I suspect that you will probably guess what it's about pretty quickly.
Differences
Sitting in the shadow of a cactus,
a man with bushy sideburns
draws sketches in a journal.
A mockingbird sits in a bush
and jumps onto the soil
to catch a beetle.
The slim, curved beak,
grey and white feathers
and large brown eyes
seem familiar yet dissimilar.
Compared with the sketches
of its relatives, the man
discovers differences so small
yet they begin a revolution.
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