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
- The Jungle Flower
- A Serenade At The Villa by Robert Browning
- My Heart Leaps Up by William Wordsworth
- Flowers of Sion: Sonnet 3 – Look how the flower by William Drummond
- Михаил Ломоносов – Надпись на день восшествия на престол Ее Величества 1753 года
- Ugliest Man In Town by Shel Silverstein
- On Looking Up By Chance At The Constellations by Robert Frost
- To A May Baby by Winifred Mary Letts
- Владимир Маяковский – Декрет о взаимопомощи инвентарем (Главполитпросвет № 101)
- Are You Content? by William Butler Yeats
- Conviction (i) by Stevie Smith
- Огюст Барбье – Аллегри
- The Rainy Day by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Wayfarer by Sara Teasdale
- I closed my eyes to creation by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
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