Narayanan Ramakrishnan - CROW IS A BEAUTIFUL BIRD

I wonder why, we have lot of crows that caw
Instead, why not we had lot of parrots that screatch;
Inplace, we have more to our eyes and add color more.
If that were so, our earth would seem more so green
and black so less.

But a crow is not such a awful thing and hounded,
For it embodies a heart that well grounded
That alerts its company in times peril
Or the moment it rests its eyes on spoils.
Good or bad they share and never fail

Throaways and carcasses, on our path, they devour
And with ogled eye snatch a snack
To make our tyro split in tears and in
No time parts away, to share the loot.

Parrots are, no doubt, pleasant and decorous
But on throwaways and carcasess, blind eye they turn,
Ripe mangoes and fruits are they after
They more they gulp, the less we have.

Let the nature takes its course;
Let us not propogate one to banish one
A crow, indeed, is a beautiful bird,
That help us to live in a better world.

Narayanan Ramakrishnan

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