Budgie Poem by Pradip Chattopadhyay

She shone in radiant glee
When I brought her a budgie
She said ‘I would make it talk
Teach it words round the clock’.
Somewhere she had read
And it stuck in her head
That of all the birds
Budgie learns the most words.
Since then she didn’t spare a bit
Deemed it a marvellous feat
She would achieve if that bird
Learn at least one word.
She remained strongly steadfast
Teach it words she must
But the bird so rudely stubborn
Not a word in its mouth was born.
‘Say bird please good morning’
She mouthed day and evening
But other than its own tweet
The budgie didn’t learn a bit.