Ringed Parrot Poem by Minnoor srinivasan

Ringed parrot, ringed parrot!
Picking, eating sweet carrot!
Chirps to greet when strangers meet!
Stays in wooden cage prattles, reads a page?
As if in a book of rhymes and trembles when bell chimes!
When i say, smile a while to click for photo-file,
Timid the parrot so it looks says something, beyond books!
I offer to drink and eat
Fail not to fondle, greet!
The parrot shivers in fear
As the cat moves near!