Google day

I wanted to make my song a bit longer but I found that I kept coming up small snippets of songs that have nooooo relevance to each other..
so tomorrow I talked to my flute teacher and I'm hoping to find a way to connect my small compositions into one song :)

Practice: Poem Composing

Sorry for the "jagged" sounds. I had the camera facing down, which was also covering the mike. But, I hope you get the basic idea of my song. 

I made up a really simple song for the poem "Traveling Through the Dark" by William Stafford. I basically wanted to focus on the sadness of the impact that technology has on nature. Here's a copy of the poem:

Traveling through the dark I found a deer dead on the edge of the Wilson River road. It is usually best to roll them into the canyon: that road is narrow; to swerve might make more dead. By glow of the tail-light I stumbled back of the car and stood by the heap, a doe, a recent killing; she had stiffened already, almost cold. I dragged her off; she was large in the belly. My fingers touching her side brought me the reason-- her side was warm; her fawn lay there waiting, alive, still, never to be born. Beside that mountain road I hesitated. The car aimed ahead its lowered parking lights; under the hood purred the steady engine. I stood in the glare of the warm exhaust turning red; around our group I could hear the wilderness listen. I thought hard for us all--my only swerving--, then pushed her over the edge into the river.