The Little Valiant bird (Gray Kingbird known as Pitirre, because of its call)

Slowly circling on warm air
the  Majestic creature looks upon its fare
eagle eye searching for a stray
hoping it might find some prey,

Upon a dense hillside
hidden on a high tree branch
a little Valiant bird does cry
Pitirre, Pitirre!           (Pe - te - reh)

"Fly away or you must die"
the Majestic creature of the sky
pays the little bird no mind
even though its warning it continually cries,

Suddenly with a flapping of wings
and a fluttering of tree limbs
the little Valiant bird does fly
like a rocket towards the sky,

Then like a blur it passes by
the Majestic creature of the sky
high above the clouds unseen
turns and drops into its dive,

Slowly circling on warm air
the Majestic creature is unaware
that far above the great blue sky
death is coming from up high,

The little Valiant bird
rapidly coming from its dive
strikes the creature
plucking out its eye,

Just like that,
the little bird disappears
the Majestic creature lets out a cry
as it tumbles in the sky,

Seconds later another strike
dead upon its second eye
the Majestic creature heads towards earth
trying to find a place to hide,

The final deathblow comes unseen
striking hard as with a mace
the creature falls to the earth
to is final resting place,

No more will I see
the splendor and beauty of its size
circling gracefully
high, high, in the clear blue sky,

A lesson has been learned
that the splendor and beauty of size
can not compete
with the Valor of the little guy!







(The Gray Kingbird lives in the southern parts of north and south America.  They are know to fly faster and higher than any wing predator. If a predator comes anywhere near their nest they call out Pitirre hence the spanish name. They have hard sharp beaks, and are very aggrevive.)
- I wrote this poem as a metaphor about China (the bird of prey) and Tibet ( the little valiant bird), hopefully in the future Tibet will be freed of the tyrant -