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
- Иван Киуру – Ершок с вершок
- Михаил Лермонтов – Блистая, пробегают облака
- To The Honble Commodore Hood on His Pardoning a Deserter by Phillis Wheatley
- CIA Dope Calypso by Allen Ginsberg
- The Quality of Courage by Stephen Vincent Benet
- The Spring by Thomas Carew
- Иван Бунин – Не видно птиц
- In A Classroom
- Prelude: The Troops by Siegfried Sassoon
- Как прекрасны все цветы
- The Kerry Cow by Winifred Mary Letts
- Subtlety
- Love Elegy (in imitation of Tibullus) by Tobias Smollett
- Looking For a Sunset Bird in Winter by Robert Frost
- Armies in the Fire by Robert Louis Stevenson
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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).
