Poetry – BIRDS NOBODY LIKES by Virginia S. Eifert, date unknown
October 21, 2015BIRDS NOBODY LIKES by Virginia S. Eifert, date unknown
You hear the most malignant tales
About the robber crow,
And bursts of indignation aimed
To make the sparrows go.
The owls appear on many tongues
In exclamations odious;
Few people say a pleasant word
About the jay melodious.
And always ill-proclaimed are hawks
As enemies of hens;
But I would much prefer a hawk
To cardinals or wrens.
I’d rather hear an owl speak
From out the winter dusk,
And hear a blue jay clarioning
Enthusiasm brusque,
And see the crows in black parades
Sweep nightly past the glow,
And feed the beggar-sparrow gang
When biting northers blow
Than surfeit of the singing birds,
The folk of good repute,
Who spend the day insipidly
In sanctified pursuit.
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