Nestling
by Mark R Slaughter
When to summon the sky
Little nestling?
When to summon the sky?
And suffer the risk – abscond in dread –
The knowledge of sort that you’ll be dead
Upon a calamitous fall;
Or taken in flight – a hawkish pounce –
Demolished as prey; your fate pronounce
You gone and to never recall.
O when to summon the sky
Little nestling?
When to summon the sky?
Aborting a den with
Feathered bed,
Unwavering mother who
Saw you fed –
Surrendering all so
You may spread
Your reach of tentative wings!
‘Tis only instinct –
E’er the reason –
Forging life:
The Nesting Season
And the trials it brings.
So up and summon the sky
Little nestling,
Up! and summon the sky!
Copyright ©: Mark R Slaughter
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Pandering by Satish Verma
- Lines to Mr. John Kennedy by Robert Burns
- Василий Жуковский – Бородинская годовщина
- Илья Эренбург – Я так любил тебя, до грубых шуток
- No Return by William Matthews
- Live With Me On Earth Under the Invisible Daylight Moon by Milton Acorn
- No Labor-Saving Machine. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Британишский – Богаевский
- Sir Hugh; Or The Jew’s Daughter poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Centenarian’s Story, The. by Walt Whitman
- This Lunar Beauty by W H Auden
- Xai Kou1
- Михаил Лермонтов – Арфа
- Какие яблоки в саду
- Низами Гянджеви – Ты видишь: я твой давний друг
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Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
