The Ugly Little Bird
by Admiral Mahic
Someone has pulled me out of the grass
Because I had fallen
From a black branch.
O sweet! O wild!
The cats are evil here!
O am an ugly little bird – with my soft beak
I keep pecking at the running brook
And I screech when at someone
Bruuised by the brute force I look!
My wings still cannot fly
But I love to travel.
My little feet I can hardly raise.
Restraining my wild little shudders
I feebly into the sky gaze.
I do not want to be in the nest
In which darkness keeps me warm.
Alone and all my own
Weak and strong,
I remain out, in the storm!
                    Admiral        
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                    Admiral Mahic        
        

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External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
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Poems in English
- Robert Burns: Sappho Redivivus: Fragment
 - Robert Burns: Pegasus At Wanlockhead:
 - Robert Burns: Ode, Sacred To The Memory Of Mrs. Oswald Of Auchencruive:
 - Robert Burns: Robin Shure In Hairst:
 - Robert Burns: Versicles On Sign-Posts :
 - Robert Burns: The Henpecked Husband:
 - Robert Burns: Elegy On The Year 1788:
 - Robert Burns: The Poet’s Progress : A Poem In Embryo
 - Robert Burns: Written In Friars Carse Hermitage: On Nithside
 - Robert Burns: The Parting Kiss:
 - Robert Burns: My Bonie Mary:
 - Robert Burns: Auld Lang Syne:
 - Robert Burns: It Is Na, Jean, Thy Bonie Face:
 - Robert Burns: I Reign In Jeanie’s Bosom:
 - Robert Burns: The Fall Of The Leaf:
 - Robert Burns: A Mother’s Lament For the Death of Her Son.:
 - Robert Burns: O, Were I On Parnassus Hill:
 - Robert Burns: The Day Returns:
 - Robert Burns: Epistle To Robert Graham, Esq., Of Fintry: Requesting a Favour
 - Robert Burns: The Fete Champetre:
 
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