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Ode to a Parakeet

by Bill Schott



An Ode from John "Para" Keats remembered

was written in a wintry mood --Decembered;

From all the wording readers would infer

that snow, like angel dandruff, did occur.


The parakeet, a sprite within a basket,

left on the porch, the wire home his casket;

brought inside to thaw beside the fire,

wet wings ignited so--a funeral pyre.


Perhaps in some far jungle there exists,

upon a shoot, silhouetted in the mist,

a happy parakeet who wasn't chosen,

to burn up in the cage in which he'd frozen.

 

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