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
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- Love’s Harvest poem – Alfred Austin
- Private Property
- Альфред де Мюссе – Ива (Как придется мне покинуть свет)
- The River Has Its Memories by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Георгий Иванов – А может быть, еще и не конец
- The Triangle by Subhash Misra
- When the Lad for Longing Sigh poem – A. E. Housman
- In The Stone I Rooted
- Аля Кудряшева – Дождь напевает, искрясь по зарослям
- Fool’s Money Bags poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Magic Markers by Rose Mary Boehm
- Gratitude, Addressed To Lady Hesketh by William Cowper
- The Last Department by Rudyard Kipling
- To The Nameless Soldier
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