Birds On Electric Wire Poem by Indira Renganathan

Birds On Electric Wire

Rating: 5.0


Wired above poles two
Swaying in gentle breeze
Perched by a row of birds on
Sparrows, tailor birds
Tweeting, screeching, caressing
Enjoying on a spree of joy
Of course non-matching crows too
Raucous in a near distant row
Unaware of my heart's speed
In cold sweat of a stringing devil
Dancing in execution-style
Monished at once but my dear heart
Trickled my nose to sneeze
Puddled my legs to skid against
An auto-riksha's sonorous horn
Alarmed birds flapped away
Caged in my relief

Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Topic(s) of this poem: nature
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Glen Kappy 30 October 2016

Indira, And this remins me of another poem of mine, Seraglio. Continuing a bit on goodness, it is on wires, under our feet, in our ears... It wafts to our noses... Yes, as you say, it is always there. May we always see it. Glen

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Anand Madhukar 17 September 2009

Wonderful imagery with some very vivid descriptions here. I particularly loved the way you have woven the beautiful with the mundane in this write.

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Samanyan Lakshminarayanan 15 September 2009

a dangerous site we see here...even human who know the dangers become victims...the birds may think that man has made a lovely parking space for them...excepting the gauge what has man really made for them

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Michael Gale 24 July 2009

I really liked this piece! Very artistic in imagery here. Had to give it a ten. God bless us all-MJG.

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Joseph Poewhit 26 November 2008

Birds talking on telephone wires - funny

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