Man and Sparrow by Maed Rill Monte

Both embrace their space

and bear no complaints.

The man is engrossed in

creative observations;

the bird looks on while

the wind dries the land.

From this guava branch

the same sparrow expects

the fullness of its days.

The young man dreams of

verses, looks on with eyes

of praise and goes to craft

beauties from the subtle.

The grains reaped, fields

turn to a mud-brown rest

and the poet would shift his

themes, and the bird comes

to a slow test of patience.

The man and the sparrow

concur to nature — the

poet ever praising, the

sparrow keeps to songs.

Sufficient in this amity.

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Maed Rill Monte is a Filipino poet. He's had poems published in Trouvaille, Written Tales and elsewhere.