»
Archives
»
Corner Pub #2
»
Empty Nest
| Corner Pub #2 |
|
Empty Nest |
|
Joyce Johnson
since 2001-03-10
Posts 9912Washington State 
|
Empty Nest (To the tune of: "I was born about ten thousand years ago." I've seen chickens try to hatch a big glass ball. Why the farmer put it there, I can't recall. But the saddest bird I've known, is this robin all alone Who's been sitting on her nest from spring to fall. The swallows have raised several families. They are flying back and forth with perfect ease. Madam Robin pays no mind and every day I find She's still sitting on that nest without a cease. I will never know what happened to her mate. I truly fear he's met a dreadful fate; Nor what has happened to her little eggs of blue. By now they'd be no good at any rate. She made her nest in my nice potted plant. As comfortable a bed you'd ever want. That is if you were a bird, but there has not been heard A single baby peeping and I can't Bear the picture that she makes there all alone, The saddest bird that I have ever known. My plant is dying too, without water wouldn't you? If they'd lived her children now would be full grown. So now you see the problem that I've got.* Should I leave the nest right there or should I not? Which is the kinder way, tear it down or let it stay? Until that bird and I are both besot. Perhaps she is just working through her grief And that little nest is giving her relief. So I'll just let her stay until she flies away And my pretty plant is down to its last leaf. Next spring I hope she finds a brand new mate, And he'll be the kind to help her sit and wait For the little babes to hatch, and her tenderness he'll match. May she have some fertile eggs to incubate. By: Joyce 07/02/05 * I know its bad grammar, but I needed a rhyme. [This message has been edited by Joyce Johnson (07-02-2005 06:28 PM).] |
||
| © Copyright 2005 Joyce I Johnson - All Rights Reserved | |||
|
Isobel Senior Member
since 2004-01-17
Posts 529Qld, Australia |
Dear Joyce I really liked this poem of yours. It actually reminded me of this song I heard my mother sing once when I was a child: Lonely Robin There's a lonely little Robin in the tree by my door And he waits for his mate to return evermore So remember, please remember that I'm always blue Like a lonely little Robin I'm waiting for you When you went away dear you promised that you'd write And I thought that you would be true But now the mailbox is empty day and night As empty as the arms that held you Those are the only two verses I know. Love Isobel xo |
||
Marge Tindal
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Joyce~ It is a sad little nest of affairs~ I have a little Love Bird (Tricky Vicky) that has no mate ... she lays her little eggs ... sits them ... until I remove them ... then lays more ... sits them ... until I remove them~ Once I had a batchelorette Cockatiel that laid 27 eggs .... EVERY SPRING ... nah ... they don't make a very big omelette~  (I didn't EVEN try it ... honest Injun !)  *Huglets*  ~*Marge*~ ~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost, |
||
|
Juju Member Elite
since 2003-12-29
Posts 3429In your dreams |
wow sad. -Juju Juju - 1.) a magic charm or fetish 2.)Magic 3.)A taboo connected woth the use of magic |
||
|
pegasus111 Member Elite
since 2000-07-27
Posts 2219ocala, fl, usa |
all good things come to those who sit and wait the woods are lovely, dark, and deep, but I have promises to keep, and many miles to go before I sleep...Frost |
||
Trillium
since 2001-03-09
Posts 12098Idaho, USA |
Dear Joyce: You do have a problem I can see! Hopefully the robin won't sit there much longer! It's hard to know what to do isn't it? Love Betty Lou |
||
|
iliana Member Patricius
since 2003-12-05
Posts 13434USA |
Joyce, how very well I understand that Robin. Good write. .....jo |
||
|
|
⇧ top of page ⇧ |
|
| All times are ET (US). All dates are in Year-Month-Day format. | ||
