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Crane Poems - Poems about Crane

Premium Member Crane
beak wedged in white noise twigs of legs snow-plant plumage in the air body borne invisible muse contemplates wholesome bird...

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Categories: crane, bird,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Folds
folds in a napkin paper crane come to life memories of you AP: Honorable Mention 2025 Posted on April 16, 2025...

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Categories: crane, memory,
Form: Senryu



Sacred Crane
"This is our Cry, This is our Prayer, That there shall be Peace in the World" - Sadako Sasaki Statue, Hiroshima ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...

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Categories: crane, bird,
Form: Shape
Eihei Dogen Kigen translations by Michael R Burch
This world? Moonlit dew flicked from a crane’s bill. —Eihei Dogen Kigen translation by Michael R. Burch Seventy-one? How long can a dewdrop last? —Eihei Dogen Kigen translation of his jisei (death poem) by Michael R. Burch Dewdrops beading grass-blades die before dawn; may an untimely wind not hasten their departure! —Eihei Dogen Kigen translation by Michael R. Burch Outside my window the plums, blossoming, within their curled...

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Categories: crane, flower, moon, nature, spring,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Song of The Sandhill Crane No 1: ABAB
A descension of value bows night scenes, the purple canopy edges its hoist, spirits cool Platte River to lose its sheen, Nebraskans wake to clarion fields voiced. A loyal guest calls, it's the Sandhill Cranes, dancing lessons, fields fattening corn orts, pecking and choosing established campaigns. Last state, go afoul, -- a date with the courts. Locals aid their tally, most from afar, It...

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Categories: crane, allusion, analogy, animal, appreciation,
Form: Crown of Sonnets



The Crane Operator
Across the river there’s a crane That’s 30 stories high, The operator like A Lego man up in the sky. As loads are lifted in the air And gently set in place, I wish that I could clearly see That operator’s face. I know I would be terrified But likely, he is not. I cannot fathom how he even Reached that sky-high spot. Yet he...

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Categories: crane, city,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Big Bad Wolf - Walter Crane 1875
lost in pursuit neither following the innate nor the learned behaviour the obsession of a moment so radical you are possessed by it brilliant until you catch yourself staring into your own eyes swallowed up by the emptiness still on the track of yourself yet past the point of no return this is how you'll be remembered you've cast yourself in iron...

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Categories: crane, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Crane
During the night, husks of buildings haunt the skies. A hook hangs high a universe away. It appears like a body - the way light lies. Don’t do this anymore: make it day, make it day. A swift gust would make the body fly. Further and further and then something is missing. Without the hook, a crane would but sigh. Scale it...

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Categories: crane, dark, death, grief, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member You Crane, In Vain
You crane, your neck To follow Our cash You crane, your neck To see were It went You crane, your neck And know that It’s trashed They spend our checks Pocket’s Picked and spent You crane, your head When they say Trust us You crane, your head For some Truth to glean You crane, your head At blatant Injustice War zones turn red From dollars Once green You crane, your neck At their Power schemes You crane, your neck To have A...

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Categories: crane, money, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hart Crane
I have stood beneath your Bridge and marveled at the music being whispered in its wires. I saw America flash pass on your train riding west, a kaleidoscopic rush of signs knitted into a vision too large to hold in one mind. You drowned in its immensity. Through the taut miles of shuttling, the wind still murmurs your timeless prayers....

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Categories: crane, poets, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Crane
white modesty works each day's food to procure craves --- weathers worst, often...

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Categories: crane, bird, nature,
Form: Haiku
Work On a Building Site
Did you ever work on a building site, And push and pull with all of your might. Then walk in mud up to your knee, And whistle at every girl you see. Did ever carry a hod on your shoulder, Then trip over a blooming great boulder. Watched a crane move a ton in one lift, Then look over at the great...

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Categories: crane, work,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Emagi Hart Crane- the Bridge'
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Categories: crane, poems, poets,
Form: Shape
Premium Member O Crane
Heads veiled in immaculate white, Like cloistered nuns tanning in sun light; As the farmer starts plowing, Flock around, twenty of you kowtowing; Searching with your sharp eyes, Finding and pecking little warms and flies... Struggle to exist in environs hard, That does not, often, your rights easily award... Around ponds and lakes and rivers and seas, When they're full or in drought...

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Categories: crane, bird, life, nature,
Form: Free verse
Crane
late summer sun, dogwood silhouettes - cranes yawning...

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Categories: crane, bird, nature,
Form: Haiku

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