All eagles are large birds of prey they usually kill to eat <br />Though like vultures do from carrion they eat the rotting meat <br />They cannot digest seeds or grain they soar in light of day <br />Above the landscape gazing down on their look out for prey. <br /> <br />In most species of eagle the female larger than the male don't ask me why this should be <br />The workings of Nature to know of too big a thing for me <br />Though those with degrees in Natural Sciences such things try to explain <br />The secrets of our Earth Mother to herself she does retain. <br /> <br />Though of the workings of Nature they know far more than me <br />On the ways of her many species most scientists disagree <br />And I who have been in love with her for more than half of a century <br />Can only gaze in wonder at the marvels that I see. <br /> <br />Like a pair of wedge tail eagles in the calm morning sky <br />So beautiful to watch them they hover as they fly <br />So close at times their wings seem almost touching so beautiful in flight <br />In Nature every day we live one more amazing sight.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/all-eagles-are-large-birds-of-prey/
