A DAILY POEM MAY 06, 2004

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Teenage Poems

always one sudden chirp

in the first light

trailed off by the excited

twits of a flock.



birds in the giant trees

outside my window,

how timely they are each morn,

I wonder they take turns

to greet each new day.



the same hour,

these little creatures

set their time

on a body clock

to herald in new adventures.



their scintillating

morn chatters

strike my curiosity

about their tales.



one must get the bettle

that escaped capture yesterday

still hiding in its hole perhaps,



the other still prays

to have the same fat worm

he had yesterday and

is definitely heading

for the same promising place,



another wonders when

it would rain,

one lone weak twitter

that seems out of place

thinks today

might be another paltry day

with little catch.



pessimism is all over,

isnt it, not only

among us homo sapiens?



the next complains about

the depleting food

in the environment



the courting, the holidaying

the scores of tales

serenaded from the trees

awake me to my own day's mission.

i join the birds in

their day i find not

quite different from mine.



i wonder whether they pray too

for a good day though? i would

gladly join them in their hymns.

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