Mag #111 "JUST SIT ON IT!"

JUST SIT ON IT!

Did you take leave of you senses?

Finally decided to go on Paternity Leave?

It's not unnatural

It's Mother Nature

Telling You

You are doing a great job Dad

and a great service

to avians everywhere

so keep up the good work~!

To the Red Red Robin who Came

Bob Bob Bobbing along

nine months ago

You know it would take time

To hatch a plan, or a nest for that matter

So please Settle down...take a break

become a stay-at-home Dad

Hatch that nest of future's potential wings

Take up and rally for the cause

Relinquish yourself to your fatherly duties

You can do it

Just sit on it~!

Did you make enough wiggle room Robin?

for all those wormy wigglers later

will be squirming underneath you

and you will feed each one's subtle movement

once the eggs start to break open

And when all those hungry mouths

are open and waiting wanting

you're hoping

wish they'd all fly the coup soon

cause you feel you have more important work to do

so we stuff and fluff them never ruffle them

as we do want to make them feel full of themselves

make them proud of who they are

fed by Mama and Papa in turn

each act of regurgitation loaded with love

Papa, did you create a hotspot

a circle of love to cradle and to incubate

those vulnerable fledglings

Gently you glide your feather duster

gilded downy feathery tuffs derriere

but do not ruffle the sleeping grouses

who want to make birdhouses of their own

one day

tactically you must sit but not squash

the eggs underneath you

like a flat of eggs underneath a steamroller

so just sit still now, hold your breath if you have to

folds of feathery softness you must incorporate

hot spots to warm the nest and the test

and keep the half-dozen or so a consistent temperature

a steady warmth of love

from the top of your beak to the bottom of your claws

as you create this temperate body heat of 98.1F

and hum a happy tune in your heart

never squawk

You've now found brooding to be an art

And when all those hungry mouths

are wide open and chirping "aw"

and there will seem to be too many

all wanting to be fed at the same time

with peckish fashion

the early bird gets the worm

so time to create a downy nest

you had one too, remember?

kick of your shoes

Robin

you are going to stay a spell

I will help you

to raise your fledglings

in the way they should go

we will give them roots and wings

and all kinds of good things

and after that

then you can go back to work

~Chiccoreal~

IMAGE BY PARKE HARRISON

Thanks for hatching this really good egg of a prompt Tess Kincaid of The Mag...go here for further

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