Showing posts with label birds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label birds. Show all posts

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Opportunists

My brother came with his tractor last night and plowed up our vegetable spot. Not 10 minutes later, a dozen birds showed up to gather the upturned worms. Hmm. How did they know?

Here is my feeble attempt at a poem:

Opportunists

Is it the grind of the tractor

That alerts the suitors,

Or a perk aroma

Only birds can tell,

Of worms up-heaved

With fresh-plowed soil;

An awakening sound?

An arousing smell?

Either or not

The lover-birds come

To capture the prize

And please the brides