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
- Юнна Мориц – Мой подвал
- Владимир Маяковский – Повествование это о странствии эсера вокруг света (Красный перец)
- Clorinda And Damon poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Mediocrity in Love Rejected by Thomas Carew
- I explain the silvered passing of a ship at night, by Stephen Crane
- Poets
- Robert Burns: Come, Let Me Take Thee To My Breast:
- Speaking To You (From Rock Bottom) by Michael Ondaatje
- Николай Заболоцкий – Когда вдали угаснет свет дневной
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Липы
- Postip by Manolo Arriola
- Ольга Берггольц – В ложе Цимлянского моря
- I Have A Rendezvous With Death
- The Dead King by Rudyard Kipling
- Mushrooms by Sylvia Plath
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
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).
