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Sidi J. Mahtrow - Ode to a Buzzard (or Why I'd love to be a Buzzard)

2014-11-07 1 Dailymotion

Watch a buzzard soar <br />Moving without effort. <br />Just a flick of the wing and a turn to the left or right <br />Takes nothing to remain in flight. <br />Maybe a shifting of the wind <br />Causes a slight movement and then <br />The black one who is above it all <br />Changes course and is again righted <br />To continue the balancing act <br />Which permits them to look where they like. <br /> <br />Maybe it's in search for food <br />Or perhaps only to go from point to point <br />Only God knows. <br /> <br />Some point out the taste that overwhelms <br />But on consideration, humans don't have better it seems <br />No over ripe cheese or fermented cabbage <br />Would be on the buzzards choice of tableage <br />Road kill perhaps is on the menu <br />Either fresh or aged in their view <br />For a feast is all they desire <br />Regardless of the imprint of a Goodyear tire <br /> <br />Then there's the lack of shelter from the cold <br />But Buzzards migrate from North to South it's told <br />Arriving with human like precision in the fall <br />And departing with the first warm day known to all. <br /> <br />What I envy most you should know <br />Is they require no glasses on their nose. <br />Sight is attuned to seeing what's below <br />Whether it's a hundred feet or more. <br /> <br />Then with a twitch of the feathers <br />They descend to see what to us would only be a blur. <br />Joining their brethren for a feast <br />At long last, nothing's left. <br /> <br />Sharing sometimes with a possum <br />Or other species that enjoy what repulses some, <br />Then with a hop-hop they again are airborne <br />To resume their flight in early morn. <br /> <br />So we end this ode to: <br />The Buzzard that's due <br />Recognition as Nature's own efficient device <br />For removing garbage, clean and nice. <br />Then soaring above it all <br />Through Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall.<br /><br />Sidi J. Mahtrow<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ode-to-a-buzzard-or-why-i-d-love-to-be-a-buzzard/

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