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
- A Valentine’s Song by Robert Louis Stevenson
- A Goddess by Tanisha Avarsekar
- Robert Burns: Pretty Peg:
- Nay Not To Night
- Easter, 1916 by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Маяковский – Заграничная штучка
- The Husband’s Black Hands by Mallika Sengupta
- Sonnet CXXXIV by William Shakespeare
- Ode on Solitude poem – Alexander Pope
- Василий Жуковский – Мина
- Antinous
- Forever Ya by Miraj Patel
- Imitation Of Spenser poem – John Keats poems
- Илона Грошева – Мечтается Алине
- Олег Бундур – Однажды на даче
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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).
