Poem: Sparrow

A hummingbird hums
A woodpecker drums.
A gull is graceful in flight.

A jay find fighting
Pretty exciting
And licks every bird in sight.

A swallow swoops
In up-and-down loops
And seldom lights on the ground.

But take a sparrow
Whose world is narrow,
A sparrow just hangs around.

A partridge whirs
Through the pines and the firs
A chickadee's ways are cute.

A pigeon coos.
And an owl hoo-hoos
Whenever it gives a hoot.

A crow steals corn
From the year it's born
Then hides where it can't be found.

A sparrow, though,
Doesn't come and go,
A sparrow just hangs around.


by Kaye Starbird