Beautiful small bird - My entry into @vdux's Haiku Contest

Beautiful small bird
Alone by the stone stairway
I pray that you lived

Written for the fledgling bird that greeted me on the stone stairway in Limpertsbierg, Luxembourg City, enroute to my German class, for three days straight. On the fourth day s/he was gone.

The bird seemed too young to fly on its own, though I don't recall any nearby trees from which it was likely to have fallen from a nest. It seemed quite plump, and unflustered, so my assumption at the time was that the parents were still feeding it, even though I did not see them do so.

I always hoped that it flew off under its own power, and didn't fall prey to a cat, or a similar fate. You still live on in my heart little one.

Thanks, @vdux, for hosting the contest; and thanks, @lymmerik, for resteeming so that I saw it, and can enter!

So, my second haiku posted about Luxembourg today, and my third poem about Luxembourg in two days. I'm on a roll. Have I mentioned that I loved it there?

I guess I should create a post about Trier, aka Treves, next.

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