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
- On His Deceased Wife poem – John Milton poems
- Now Hollow Fires Burn Out to Black poem – Alfred Edward Housman
- When to the sessions of sweet silent thought (Sonnet 30) by William Shakespeare
- Come not when I am dead poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- One Being Brought From Africa To America by Phillis Wheatley
- Motel Pool by P. K. Page
- Stars and Jasmine by Maurice Riordan
- Inside/Outside The Window
- Олег Григорьев – Комары
- Владимир Корнилов – Халабуда
- Шекспир – Мне показалось, что была зима – Сонет 97
- I Have A Friend I Can Proudly Say by Miraj Patel
- O’erweening Statesmen Have Full Long Relied by William Wordsworth
- Khanaa’s Song by Mallika Sengupta
- simple_heart.html
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