Aerial Combat (2024)

I sat in the garden this morning,

Long after the new day was dawning,

But my timing sublime,

Something up in the sky,

A drama that Nature was drawing:

Bird of prey that was mobbed by a crow,

Full two minutes I watched them go.

Wheeling and striking,

Reflexes like lightning,

Ah me, I do love them so.

So I Googled the internet 

And researched bird of prey silhouettes;

The crow was the bigger

And that was the trigger;

I know that I'll never forget.

Not the peregrine that I had dreamed

But a sparrowhawk my eyes had gleaned

In a white empty sky

And oh me and oh my,

What a wonderful sight I had seen.