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
- May-Night by William Ellery Leonard
- Angel Of Better Days To Come
- Олег Григорьев – Прометей
- Hey birds by Raj Arumugam
- Николай Заболоцкий – Болезнь
- Николай Карамзин – К милости
- Стефан Малларме – Весеннее обновление
- A Wife A-Praïs’d by William Barnes
- Анатолий Жигулин – Ах, как весело листья летят
- A Color of the Sky by Tony Hoagland
- Late September poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Three Songs To The One Burden by William Butler Yeats
- Николай Заболоцкий – Я трогал листы эвкалипта
- Doomes-Day: The Twelfth Houre by William Alexander
- Ольга Седакова – Прибавления к “Старым песням”
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