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
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- Нина Пикулева – Ой, да чья ж это девчушка
- Robert Burns: She’s Fair And Fause:
- Cinema Therapy and The MovieMaking Process
- Sonnet CXLVII by William Shakespeare
- O God
- If Truth in Hearts That Perish poem – A. E. Housman
- Laila and the Khalifa by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Memory by William Browne
- Sonnet 131: Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art by William Shakespeare
- Sunshine through a Cobwebbed Window poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Омар Хайям – Ну, допустим, что будет тебе и почет
- The Silkworm by William Cowper
- Ephemera by William Butler Yeats
- The Song of the Cheerful (but slightly sarcastic) Jesus by Oliver St. John Gogarty
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