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Paul Butters - Young Chickens

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These balls of fluff, so small and light, <br />They make a sweet and delicate sight. <br /> <br />With tiny beaks and dewdropp eyes, <br />And stalky legs on clutching toes, <br />Soft chickens chirp and shake, <br />While mother keeps them safe from foes. <br /> <br />My sister's hands, uncertain, flicker- <br />Take hold afraid a one-day chick; <br />Such vices that could snap its twiggy ribs <br />Or mangle wings like petals <br />If startled by a stalky flutter. <br /> <br />These bright, shimmering, shivering balls of sun, <br />Like magnificent tigers, grand yet near extinct, <br />They shame the work of man. <br /> <br />For what can he create? <br />A glittering palace of steel and concrete and soot, <br />Which crumbles, black, to strew the sterile earth with slag. <br /> <br />Self-seeding grass retakes the rubble jigsaw! <br />The carcass of man's mortal mark, <br />Once left, <br />Is dust in nature's wake. <br /> <br />See spring now banish the death of winter, <br />As leaf-clouds billow from tree-trunk spikes, <br />Puffed like a yacht's wind-filled sail. <br /> <br />Above, great white clouds cruise on a crystal film, <br />On the surface of a great waveless ocean. <br />Beyond, rests the dome of the sky, <br />Pure blue, <br />Broken only by the radiant sun.<br /><br />Paul Butters<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/young-chickens/

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