Birds 19 - Birdbrain Comments

This reminds me of the human phenomenon of '(conditioned) learned helplessness' (cf. Seligman) : giving up upon failure due to the perception that it is a global, permanent, self-inflicted and unchangeable fact. Thank you for this poem dedicated to diligent and noble pigeons!

Such a wonderful piece......thank u, dear poet....

---how too often we humans react to life's problems in this same bird-brain way! ! ! excellent write! ! ! 5 stars

I greatly enjoyed this interesting poem and its lesson. Thanks for sharing.

I have already told you dear Unniji, I am jealous of free lives of birds. Loved these lines, 'Through the entire morning she worked collecting twigs paper and cloth shards, in the afternoon the sun was hot and the chik was pulled down, down came the nest incomplete'. Top score.

The poem gives us an real life example to teach us an important life lesson. Indeed a fabulous poem.

I had posted a rejoinder to Ms Indira Renganathan on her comments. But it has disappeared. Can PoemHunter help us?

An interesting poem based on a real incident with a good message

A beautiful poem with a meaningful lesson in life. Sometimes our earnest efforts lead us to a futile endeavor. We must be watchful.

Thank you, Bri, for the Five Star Rating, though you have inadvertently clicked 4 stars.

I had posted rejoinders to the posts of Bri Edwards here. All of them have disappeared. Can PoemHunter help us?

PH and Bri Edwards always conspire against me! 😀😂

This poem appears in the Best Member Poem list today. Thank You, PoemHunter

Overall, for the poem, esp. since I 'love' birds, I give five stars. * * * * * bri ;) OOPS! made a mistake and gave only 4 and PH won't allow a change.

In case I didn't say it already, 'how did the Dr. (or was it the poet) KNOW for sure that the same individual bird persisted for weeks? '

Both my wife and I feel that the Mumbai/Bombay pigeon(s) may well have gone elsewhere (eventually) to raise a family.

My wife said a 'female' (smaller, she said) stood by and watched as a 'male' tried for two days (only) to finish a nest though the nest material kept slipping away.

My wife had a kitchen window with a sloping glass top ('garden window') , on which a pigeon-'cousin', a Mourning Dove (OR a succesion of them) tried for two days.

Could Dr. Salim Ali know for SURE that the SAME bird, not ANOTHER individual or individuals, of the same species, were the ones who came after the first nest-failure?

NOW I see the Glossary! ! And I WAS trying to recall the 'modern' name for Bombay. Thanks for the help, though it was below the poem. Ha ha.