Raising Peregrines

an Arabian sonnet Raising up a falcon brood – bucolic, one becomes extremely melancholic. Yesterday a clamor vitriolic told of eyas’ danger diabolic. Trying panacea called a mixer feeding drops of magic juice elixir, desultory effort served to fix her. Little did I know there was a trickster. Still forbearance caused my heart to tremble. Gathered on the roof, my birds resemble teenage bullies looking to dissemble. Such assemblage often does beleaguer. Lissome sibs had pushed off little leaguer - fellow eyas not yet fledged but eager. *eyas (eye’ yuz) is a nestling falcon taken from the nest for training, plural is eyasses