Blackbird poem

Here's another poem for the Spring Bank Holiday, from my book, Wildlife Poems.

It's drawn from glimpses of the pair of blackbirds in our garden.

If you're a teacher, parent or carer, perhaps your children would like to make up a poem about a nest-building bird too.

Busy Blackbird

Skids about the garden,
never stops to rest,
stuffing beak with shreds and bits - 
never mind what's best.

Flaps off over treetops,
dropping stalks and sticks...
back again - more hops, more bits:
blackbird building nest.


From Wildlife Poems.
Hope your spring bank holiday is being duly springy!

Kate