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:
- Mahomed Akrams Appeal To The Stars
- Psalm 19: Coeli Enarrant by Sir Philip Sidney
- Sonnet CXXVI by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Высоцкий – Тексты для капустника к 5-летию Театра на Таганке
- Новелла Матвеева – Дома без крыш
- Николай Карамзин – Из письма к И. И. Дмитриеву (Что ж может быть любви и счастия быстрее)
- Юнна Мориц – О жизни, о жизни
- still the leaves fall… and dream by Steve Troyanovich
- Омар Хайям – Будь хмельным и влюбленным всегда
- Василий Кубанёв – 12 июля
- Ode For Ted by Sylvia Plath
- Twenty-Four Hokku On A Modern Theme poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- I threaded a garland with the memories of a spring… by Preeth Nambiar
- Владислав Крапивин – В южных морях и у севера дальнего
- Вера Павлова – Нежность больше не делится
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
- Strumpet Song by Sylvia Plath
- Street Song by Sylvia Plath
- Stopped Dead by Sylvia Plath
- Stings by Sylvia Plath
- Stillborn by Sylvia Plath
- Spinster by Sylvia Plath
- Spider by Sylvia Plath
- Sow by Sylvia Plath
- Southern Sunrise by Sylvia Plath
- Snakecharmer by Sylvia Plath
- Sculptor by Sylvia Plath
- Rhyme by Sylvia Plath
- Resolve by Sylvia Plath
- Recantation by Sylvia Plath
- Pursuit by Sylvia Plath
- Purdah by Sylvia Plath
- Prospect by Sylvia Plath
- Private Ground by Sylvia Plath
- Point Shirley by Sylvia Plath
- Poems, Potatoes by Sylvia Plath
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