The Sparrow
Sparrow, O my tiny sparrow!
Visit my cozy home again.
I will give you things you need-
Water, twigs, seeds and grain.
When I was a little child,
You used to visit my home.
Why then you left your nest,
For a distant land to roam?
Perhaps we snatched from you,
Your natural habitat green.
No gardens, plants and trees
Left for you to alight and preen.
Polluted air is wreaking havoc
In your soaring sustained flight.
What good then is left for you
In this expanding urban blight.
For your long-awaited comeback,
We are correcting all our wrongs.
Come, come my pretty bird again
To sing your lovely, morning songs.
About this poem
I wrote this poem about the sparrow because this bird, which was once a common sight in homes, has become so uncommon now that it is no longer seen in our surrounding neighbourhood. In this poem, I yearn for its comeback to places where it once used to visit in bygone days.
Written on June 26, 2022
Submitted by sc773138 on September 01, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 671 |
Words | 154 |
Stanzas | 20 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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