Contemplating Crows
By skinner_jennifer
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Cautious crows with attentive eager
eyes, I wonder! Do they engage in
wistful reverie as I do; chance to
daydream on what might be?
Majestically they inhabit locally,
preoccupied with wistful stance
in branches of tallest trees, till
nearby disturbance brings them
back with ease.
Negotiators to antics of magpies
squawking, wings among leaves
wildly beating; misbehaving like
delinquents raving, crows then
dip and dive to avert the fighting.
After all the excitement they with
silence peck their morsels, assured
they're always first in line, pigeons
with caution do decline; since bold,
fearless hungry spirits are relentless,
survivors of fittest every time.
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survival of the fittest (and
survival of the fittest (and loudest). they watch you watching.
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I love how you wonder if they
I love how you wonder if they daydream :0) They can certainly sit in one place for a very long time! And "attentive eager eyes" is a great description. That they can be both "assured" and "cautious" too. Do you give the crows in your garden peanuts? When my son's dad sits on the seafront, he says there is one which keeps going sideways to and fro along the railings infront of the bench, until he notices and scatters a few peanuts :0)
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they do seem to be rather
they do seem to be rather bully-boys don't they? Some of the big seabirds seem so too - they are much bigger than I used to think. Do you have many magpies then? I didn't realise crows ate peanuts! Rhiannon
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"Do they engage in wistful
"Do they engage in wistful reverie as I do.."
You have captured quite a complicated avian picture there, Jenny. The hierarchy of birds. Word pictures skilfully assembled in your poem.
Personally, I rather like corvids. There's something profoundly mystic about them.
Really enjoyed this :)
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"assured they are always
"assured they are always first in line", this is a great discription of crows, the kind of birds I am fascinated with (wrote once a poem about crows...) we have a huge walnut tree opposite with many, many of them, I love it when they leave for the night and fly in big flocks right over my house to unknown night shelters. It's a great spectacle to watch them unite with all the other ones around the neighbourbood....Amazing birds, and a great poem, Jenny!
Yutka
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