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"British Winter Birds" by Pramod Subbaraman



Beautiful birds that brighten dull and gloomy British winters

With weird and wonderful names

Were those who named them drunk or starving?


How many types of finches and tits?

Makes me chuckle when I hear, read, say those names

But leave those crazy humans aside for a moment


Does a tit know that we call it a tit?

Does it care?

Is a tit known by any other name diminished in any way?


My favourite tit surely is the blue tit

Just look at those brilliant colours

And that stare!


She has the look of a professional boxer

About to knock you out

What a stunner!


Can there be a better day than one spent in silence

Watching these lovelies

Going about their daily business?




Pramod Subbaraman is a poet from India who lives and works in the UK. He started writing during the first COVID19 lockdown and has since been published in the UK, the USA, the Republic of Ireland and the Republic of South Africa.

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