Birds

Does anyone hear the birds
oh how they screech

far up in those trees
away from our reach…

Skip and hop
shaky cribs on twigs
drop -

dizzy jig they each
swap
giddy kids in a sweet
shop.


Louder and louder
spill shrieks from their beaks -

near the school bus cheep cheep
Oi! one stole my lunch beep beep


And so one day
caw caw’d Mr. Cat
to come play

quick tap
pretty paws

lick scratch
cunning claws!


Now
asleep in my bed
Mr. Cat has been fed

lonely
visits

tweets melody
in my head.