<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368200" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Birdbrain</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Streaking, braking, twisting snatching, <br>Willie Wagtail's insect catching, <br>acrobatic chatterbox is garbed in black and white.<br>Overhead a falcon gliding<br>wheels and dives, hones in, colliding, <br>nail-gun force in outstretched claws which strike and lock in tight.<br>Falcon's talons raking feathers, <br>small-boned bird eludes caged tethers, <br>spirals down to dropp within a crown of needled pine.<br>Cradled safe in twiglet fences, <br>Wagtail blinks, regaining senses, <br>splintered wing hangs limply from a slashed and bloodied spine.<br>Wagtails are unused to resting, <br>soon, the broken bird is testing, <br>asymmetric fluttering as painful minutes slip.<br>Drifting, slowly dehydrating, <br>ants begin investigating; <br>as they nip, it hops, retreating, reaching pine limb's tip.<br>Still it watches insects flicking, <br>body clock's insistent ticking, <br>urges nesting, feeding, singing, borders to defend.<br>Tiny size can be deceptive, <br>this small bird is quite perceptive, <br>constantly deciding, many duties to attend.<br>Suddenly it launches, sailing, <br>briefly floats, then cartwheels flailing, <br>Willie Wagtail's final, fatal leap into the sky.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Insects hover, soon to plunder-<br>Can a bug feel smug? <br>I wonder.....<br>No, <br>but maybe birds can choose to linger or to fly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Diane+Hine">Diane Hine</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368200" data-title="Birdbrain de Diane Hine" data-description="Streaking, braking, twisting snatching, Willie Wagtail's insect catching, acrobatic chatterbox is garbed in black and white. Overhead a falcon gliding wheels and dives, hones in, colliding, nail-gun force in outstretched claws which strike and ..."></div> </div> </div>

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