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Three Chickens in a Tree

A free range poem

One, two, three,
chickens in a tree.

One is small
and gives a cluck,

Two sits in the middle
and his name is chuck,

Three stands on the branch,
and doesn’t give a…
as luck will have it—
between you and me…

They are three
free range chickens
happy to be
sitting and standing
on a branch in a tree.



—Lesley Scoble, December 2025

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Three Chickens in a Tree – Song 🎶

I wrote my poem Three Chickens in a Tree in response to Melissa’s Fandango Flash Fiction photo prompt #353. The photo is from Erwin Bosman on Pexels.

THANK YOU
My thanks to Melissa Lemay for the wonderful prompt and the inspirational photo.
I would also like to thank Erwin Bosman for the photo from which I created the drawing.
And most of all, thank you, dear reader, for spending time with my poem.

Please check out Melissa’s prompt by following the link below.

Melissa’s Fandango Flash Fiction Challenge #353