Pushkin Sonnet - the Meandering Brook
The Meandering Brook
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the brook meanders across the moorland,
dividing heather and bracken with banks
adorned with wetland flora, looking grand.
sandy patches, fauna can fill their tanks.
birds of many feathers' quench their thirst, bathe.
water shrew, get lucky, a chance to gaze.
a dipper where the bank widens; washed rock.
the brook earns its reputation, don't knock!
it gurgles, babbles, the midges raving,
mosquitoes, mayflies, themselves on display,
searching for a mate, only have one day.
water scorpions, be wary, nippers!
babbling brook now meanders on, a stream,
then a river full of shoals of bronze bream!
Copyright © Mick Talbot | Year Posted 2018
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