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
Copyright ©:
Admiral Mahic
A few random poems:
- An Afternoon by Raymond Carver
- The Brook That Ran By Gramfer’s by William Barnes
- O’erweening Statesmen Have Full Long Relied by William Wordsworth
- Наум Коржавин – Поэзия не страсть, а власть
- Владимир Высоцкий – Заключительная песня Кэрролла
- In Answer to a Request poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Devonshire Street W.1 poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Dinner Date by Rainbow Reed
- Neighing at the Slope by Mahmoud Darwish
- The Two by W H Auden
- Владимир Маяковский – Да здравствуют недели помощи по всей республике (Главполитпросвет №353)
- Robert Burns: Tho’ Cruel Fate Should Bid Us Part:
- Big Grab by Tony Hoagland
- Яков Полонский – Песня циганки
- Hudibras and Milton Reconciled by William Somervile
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- The Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
- Sonnet I
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