Ray Zottola Poet Free verse

Birds, My Thoughts

Amazing these creatures.
They keep coming back to build a nest on my porch.
I say no, but they do not listen.

Without asking , they build anyway.
So I knock it down again and again and again.

Birds are psychotic I say, but just maybe it's me
I quite enjoy the battle.

After a time I ask why.
Why do they keep coming back.

Then it dawns and I see no leaves in the trees.
Oh I think. They are not psychotic at all.
They are so smart. My porch shelters them from the weather, which 
I say in a psychotic way.

Maybe im  insane instead. Doing the same thing over and over
expecting a different end to the story.

Now wait a minute!  
So do they.

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Deb Kelly July 24, 2021 at 5:46 PM Ray, how so very true-we’re all insane to some degree, so why not the birds. perhaps they know they have a symbiotic relationship with you after all. I love the conclusion you both reached at the end. Thank you for sharing, and make this poet see things a little differently too.

Darlene De Beaulieu April 29, 2020 at 9:37 AM Hello Ray Zottole, the birds are smart they will build their nest anywhere they can. Like signs on a building.Now that is clever. Enjoy your day my fiend. Be safe.

Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart April 27, 2020 at 7:53 AM Lol! Keen observation... I would feel blessed by the nest. I've kept finches, I have seen first hand 'psychotic'; two males fighting, my bud says leave em, they'll sort it out... Nope, I assured him they'd fight till the death. Enjoyed, xomo