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
- Epigram on Jessy Staig’s recovery by Robert Burns
- To Eva Descending The Stair by Sylvia Plath
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Новогоднее видение
- Requiem for Two by Vinko Kalinić
- Альфред Теннисон – Королева мая
- Владимир Маяковский – Порт
- The Prodigal Son by Rudyard Kipling
- Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray
- The Lover Mourns For The Loss Of Love by William Butler Yeats
- Василий Курочкин – Раздумье
- Impromptu on Mrs. Riddell’s Birthday by Robert Burns
- Степан Щипачев – Обращение к времени
- Epigram on Andrew Turner by Robert Burns
- A Minuet Of Mozart’s by Sara Teasdale
- Platonick Love
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