messageolive sparrow
silently counts
leaves left on tree
her chirp se-lick
meant just for mate
'time to move on'...
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Categories:
bird,
Form: Tristich
The Lonesome Whippoorwill-Country and Western Music Video Collab with Michael Tor
In acknowledgement to Michael Tor for the invitation to collaborate and create a music video on this heart rendering ballad of the Lonesome Whippoorwill. Thank you for the opportunity Michael, it was indeed an honor. This is a shortened version to fit the video.
“The Lonesome Whippoorwill” is a heart-stirring ballad of love, loss, and...
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Categories:
bird, emotions, loss, love,
Form: Ballad
Notre Dame BellsIt tolls eighty eight, times to symbolize that someone has died .It wasn’t the ordinary man in the street or the man that frequently disrupt the people’s heart beat; it wasn’t the fellow down the road or the man tending to sheep up the road, it was the man that wore the papacy cap and...
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Categories:
bird, character, community, death,
Form: Narrative
tired of hearing swear wordsPretty perky green parrot repeats each word
Owner Pat makes them up, they are absurd
Chickapickylicky slickyconcly curd
Guests give strange looks to the odd-sounding bird
Don’t ask me says Pat I don’t understand a word....
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Categories:
bird,
Form: Monorhyme
DOVEDA bird flew over me,
leaving a feather falling,
landing on my head:
Oh, it had to be a dove,
I’ve never felt so peaceful:-
...
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Categories:
allegory, analogy, bird, imagery,
Form: Tanka
Peacock is a MaleFanning his tail is the male’s trick
Beautiful colors prove he is a Mick
Trying to impress a plain brown peahen
His feathers better be thick, not thin....
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Categories:
bird,
Form: Rhyme
Endless AffectionsEndless Affections
I know nothing but
A love in her smiles.
Years passed without a date;
Love was disappearing in miles.
The distance of time and place,
Mountains and valleys,
The love failed to race.
In the silence of many days,
The wind blew the message:
“For...
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Categories:
appreciation, bird, fate, feelings,
Form: Free verse
enjoying robins
Categories:
bird,
Form: Haiku
Happiness Fluffled Feathers
Categories:
analogy, bird,
Form: Shape
JumpingArisen, she tumbled into a dream which, replicated a
memory of one previously.
Uncertain and still, like the tiptoe of a newborn finch on the
branch, a world of chaos lay before her.
The only certainty was the risk itself.
The tree loses its leaves but stands tall, embedded within its
roots.
She took a tumble; the sudden reality of a harsh...
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Categories:
bird, children, courage, family,
Form: Free verse
enjoying robins
Categories:
bird,
Form: Haiku
Life's Roller Coaster RideWelcome to my life—it's a wild ride with twists and drops that leave me breathless, mirroring the storms within. Heavy chains pull at me, and though I rise, gravity reminds me of my place—unseen, just echoes left behind.
Some days, I feel weightless, lifted by joy, soaring beyond doubt into a kingdom of sky, every breath...
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Categories:
bird, 12th grade, abuse, anger,
Form: Free verse
WITH HER RARE FLYING WINGS
WITH HER RARE FLYING WINGS
Desiring to soar,
She waved her sage rainbow wings;
Peacocking the yard:-
She faked a hopscotching flight,
Strutting her well-winged buttocks.
...
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Categories:
beauty, bird, character, extended
Form: Tanka
ECHOES OF THE LAKETrumpet-like lilies by the lake
preen for the flamboyant flamingo,
sifting through the murky waters,
searching for algae and shrimp
where crawdads click and clatter.
While silvery fish glide stealthily
leaving barely a ripple behind,
a chorus of frogs’ croaks
echo like the whining twang
of a plucked banjo string.
Dragonflies skim the water’s surface
as their translucent wings shimmer
like gems in the sunlight,
dart about the...
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Categories:
animal, bird, flower, insect,
Form: Free verse
BUTTERFLYAs she drinks nectar from a flower, sweetness from heaven falls like dew
anointed like gentle rain amidst sun showers, she appears as if on cue
Lifting her wings, she lands on a Zinnia beneath a tinted sky of April blue
a flight of fancy fanning fast, she's a fabulous marvel of beauty, true on...
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Categories:
beauty, bird, butterfly, nature,
Form: Couplet
Specific Types of Bird Poems
Definition | What is Bird in Poetry?