Feathering our own nest

Feathers are made of keratin

imagining how light

pigmented so beautifully

to aid a bird in flight

preening glands

hold special oils

to waterproof and hold

back the inclement moisture

thus worth their weight in gold

able to trap air when in flight

and provide pure insulation

Helping to   keep the wild  souls clean

spreading pure elation

delicate and dainty

but amazingly so strong

these are the birds feathers

and to birds they do belong

Giving form and giving structure

and personality

a contour and a silhouette

a feature wild and free

balanced and harmonious

aeronautically

a ruff a frill a plume a crest

an aid in glorious flight

gliding soaring sailing

in air lanes of the light

This integral and magical

certainty

we feel we have the right

To steal  away

so abusively

and so painfully  incite

among the wilder feathered souls

a larcenists refrain

the irrelevancy

Is obvious

And What did  we have to gain

a sharing oh so wearing

and an untenable disdain

an undervaluation

for bias and beyond

fixation and obsession

in thought who dares respond.

some ugly corporation

where faceless green wash be

and advertising happens

A tad misguidedly