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
- Владимир Высоцкий – Дорожный дневник: Часть II
- Sonnet Ix
- Ballade Of Youth And Age by William Ernest Henley
- An Epitaph On Sr John Walter, Lord Cheife Baron by William Strode
- The Horn Of Egremont Castle by William Wordsworth
- The Veairy Veet That I Do Meet by William Barnes
- Nanny’s New Abode by William Barnes
- If I Got You by Miraj Patel
- CLAUDIAN’S OLD MAN OF VERONA by Abraham Cowley
- Ольга Берггольц – Подбирают фомки и отмычки
- Fairy Land v by William Shakespeare
- Эмиль Верхарн – Звонарь
- A god in wrath by Stephen Crane
- Юнна Мориц – В цирке
- An ode to you by Tanisha Avarsekar
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