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
- I shall not be a shame by Torm Gardson
- His Mercy Endureth For Ever by John Oxenham
- After Schiller by Thomas Hardy
- The islands of happiness
- Владимир Маяковский – Номер 17
- What the Rattlesnake Said by Vachel Lindsay
- Николай Карамзин – К Алине на смерть ее супруга
- Sonnet 11
- Олег Григорьев – Как вы думаете, где лучше тонуть
- Villonaud for This Yule poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Heccar and Gaira by Thomas Chatterton
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Вы с Музой свадьбу золотую
- Нина Воронель – В чаще
- Life by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Владимир Британишский – Утром 10 мая 1945 года
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