Great Poets Write About Birds

If you want to know To what heights you can go, On the street, here’s the word — You have to write about birds. All of the greats do, And you really should, too!
From Robert Frost’s little snow-kicking crow, To Galway Kinnell’s Canada Warbler woes, And the ever-famous Raven from Poe, All of the greats describe birds, don’t you know?
If you don’t want your words To get flushed with your turds, It’s simple — ain’t you heard? You’ve got to write about birds. It will crowbar and bend The heights you could ascend On the back of its wings — Oh, your praises they’ll sing!
Why don’t you pick a finch? It’ll do, in a pinch; Or better yet a stork? Oh, I think that’ll work. Use some couplets and rhyme; Maintain meter and time; Keep a sing-songy feel — All the birds do, for real!
I am speaking a fact; I’m not peddling trickery — Take a look out back At your oak or your hickory. They won’t think you’re insane (But they might call you bird-brained), When you write about birds With your poetic words.
