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Cranes In Migration

Cranes fly miles During the winter Migrating birds Hoping to reach their destiny. Buzzards along the way Look for pigeons That seek to feasts and long legged buzzards search for pigeons Inside pigeon holes. Parrots adapt to our Surrounding But in the wild They search out their Buggery guard diet. I never knew pigeons Of millions of buggies Pull their intelligence To find their watering holes Even attacking falcons Trying to catch a meal As they fall just out of reach On a dime out maneuvering The falcons that continue to go hungry As the beauty of a sunset paints the skies And the cranes continue Their travel through the Himalayas. The ball eagle awaits for An exhausted crane But the eagles aren't the only eyes Watching these cranes in the Himalayans Vulgers are hoping to catch an Exhausted crane on their journey west A crane that managed to escape The feast of vulgers Is spotted by a tigress with young cubs In the land of india The vulgers gorge on their stolen feast Knowing the tigress will return To feed her cubs. Even the pigeons on the way Snatching foods from The rats mating and eating in chaos. Eventually the falcons retreat after a few morsels Taking to the skies On the horizon cranes See late comers delayed By the weather And take their refuge among them As they leave the Himalayans Behind therm. Wow their journey Take then across the land Of camels and villagers Pigeons feed five days among camels Learning the camels feeding times A pussy, not your usual pussy Like a wilderness cat sneaks among the crowd Gets her pigeon and feasts Red crumb swallows in China are accepted among the homes Of humans The swifts are encourage in communities They are respected as they keep away the pest On the journey swans appear in Japan Where Japanese cranes Perceived as good luck and tranquility Are feed fish by the locals So many stop migrating All together Their seriality is cut short as the red fox and the stellar eagles Descend for a meal. Cranes find safe havens In Japan where cranes feed on grains placed by villagers For decades. The Cranes spend their whole winter in Japan Even moving to make room for cranes waiting the wings For their turn to feed on the grains Cranes are fenced in by From villagers welcoming their presents Protecting safe havens.

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