O" Mynah..

       O” Mynah...

 O” Mynah, O’ Mynah the little bird,

 I had got it from the paddy field.

The screaming sound echoes in fields

In the dusk where I saw reaped grains,

Looks like golden beads in sunset

Loading  in bullock carts by men.                

The women carrying hay bundles in line.

All are busy to go to home.

The ants are biting too hard,

Village hunter black crows scramble it.

 The screaming sound echoes in fields

The little bird was injured, twines twisted

in wings and limbs are bleeding

I saw tears in its eyes.

Feathers are stuck   in blood and mud.

When I took the bird in my hands,

Aggressively it strikes again and again.

With pointed sharp beak and claws.

It made cuts in my fingers.

But I didn’t drop or leave the bird down

I loved and cared the little mynah.

It’s unable to fly, healing takes time

The turmeric paste applied on broken feathers

Day by day it became a beautiful Mynah

It had a yellow golden crested eye.

It had brown and black plumage that shine.

Thin Yellow limbs and beaks

White patches under its wings

The adorable beauty started to sing.

Woo! What a change..

Started  to jump and move slowly in cage.

Its adapted to  a free flight .

In the backyard I started to watch

 Other birds in dawn and dusk

But they smelt I will put them in cage

I perched and kept there  food in bottles

The locusts and grasshopper and cockroaches

My mynah swallows very fast.

Then home cooked rice, peas and sweet fruits

Kept in the coconut shell all dishes it likes

First to give to my mynah always tasty dishes.

Early joyfully wake up hearing the mash up songs

It’s able to walk on toes and move on the loop.

When I touch the bird it shows greet.

Tail feathers kept up and head will be down.

Stretches the wings and dances like a peacock

It slowly started to talk to me in love

It starts to whistle in loud, if any guest comes

It screech if it sees cats, snakes or eagles.

I just thought the bird is docile let it to perch alone

The bird in swift flew over the trees and started to whistle

That made immense joy to that bird but I felt very sad

the cage with left over dried seeds and sweet fruits.

Its sleepless night watching at the cage i.e., empty

I heard melodious song often by the bird.

You in the groves and fly with free birds in sky

On the hanging leaves of coconuts trees.

Now it sings and dances in the natures love.

You are with your mate in the avian world

Without boundaries enjoy the freedom, enjoy life.

I heard, I seen you here and there jumps

I know in my home you are a caged bird.

 But the polished cage, I kept for lifetime.

It will be a cage for giving care to Bird 

O” Mynah, you live long in your home.