date palm trees where weaver birds built their nests
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Poetry:-Selected poems of Palas Kumar Ray on nature for children“Date Palm Trees where weaverbirds built their nests”
There they were threeDate Palm tree.
They were there waiting to be killedfor committing no crime to mankind
but for meeting It's starvation for space.
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Poetry:-Selected poems of Palas Kumar Ray on nature for children“Date Palm Trees where weaverbirds built their nests”
They bore tasty little fruits,I loved them a lot to eat
and gave my friends as treat.In winter they gave us juice,
So sweet! So warm!and I would keep waiting
For winter to come.
There they were threeDate Palm tree.
Though they didn't Vexthose three men with axe.
They came and fell them downone by one.
They axed them into pieceswhen other pieces dried.
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Poetry:-Selected poems of Palas Kumar Ray on nature for children“Date Palm Trees where weaverbirds built their nests”
There they were threeDate Palm tree.
No one did cryno plants, no human, not even I
Only a few weaverbirds chirped,whirling over our heads
encircling their nestsfallen on the ground
which rested there on top of the treelittle while ago.
There they were threeDate Palm tree.
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Poetry:-Selected poems of Palas Kumar Ray on nature for children“Date Palm Trees where weaverbirds built their nests”
I wished, I get the nestwhich was intact than the rest,
rested beyond my reachat the tip of the fallen tree.
It was so beautiful to look!I wanted to decorate my room.
I tried, but soon I cried 'ouch! 'A pointed leaf of date tree
pierced my leg, I restrained.But a man of those three
Soon came with a knifechopped and punished those leaves
and fetched me the nest.I rewarded him with a smile.
There they were threeDate Palm tree.
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Poetry:-Selected poems of Palas Kumar Ray on nature for children“Date Palm Trees where weaverbirds built their nests”
The weaver birds chirpedwhirling above perhaps cried
as I was carrying the nest.How nicely they've woven the nest!
I was thinking and 'wow! 'I exclaimed,there were nestlings inside!
There they were threeDate Palm tree.
Nestlings were so lovely,so cute, I touched them softly,
took them on my palm with care,much care, lest they fall and die.
Death! I feared 'No I must save them’I thought myself 'I must help thee'.
There they were threeDate Palm tree.
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Poetry:-Selected poems of Palas Kumar Ray on nature for children“Date Palm Trees where weaverbirds built their nests”
Soon I rushed to the mansought for his help again.
I wanted him hang the nest therein the branch of a coconut tree near.
'It won't be that easy to save them dear 'he said as he thought for a while.But lastly he did what I wished.
There they were threeDate Palm tree.
He climbed the coconut tree, I knew for me,threw the other end of a ropewhere I tightly tied the nest.
Gently, carefully he took it to the tophe tied the nest there in the rib of a coconut
leaf.The weaver birds still whirled chirping,
I thought now they laughed.
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Poetry:-Selected poems of Palas Kumar Ray on nature for children“Date Palm Trees where weaverbirds built their nests”
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