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Flightless Bird Poems - Poems about Flightless Bird

Premium Member I Walked
...I walk I walk the earth with dark and heavy steps I walked the earth in search of something I walked the earth until my feet turned black there were times of great plenty there were times of......

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Categories: flightless bird, light,
Form: Free verse
Right
...Right If Heaven’s gates are all that wait, Then let that fate which I await, Take me in; I can no longer stay. This fool for love hopes for judgment day. This life I lived, to all I gi......

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Categories: flightless bird, death, fate, heaven, light,
Form: Rhyme



Lachesism
...Maybe I seek meaning in the press of sympathetic eyes Maybe within me resides a cancerous longing to shatter into a million tiny pieces Maybe I will finally matter once tragedy razes the last vesti......

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Categories: flightless bird, depression, sorrow, words,
Form: Free verse
He Writes
...Sometimes he writes to her upon a white paper moon. The ink of his thoughts dries to invisibility as he folds the love-letter into an origami model of a flightless bird, a creature now extinct......

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Categories: flightless bird, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Great Fish Maui Snared
...With canoe and hook of a jawbone below a great fish Maui snared, and his brothers half-crazed behaving leapt and gouged in frenzy craving. From Palliser Bay to Cape Reinga (departing p......

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Categories: flightless bird, home,
Form: Rhyme



He Who Loves Here and Now
...History is a loudmouth dunghill hen, Who so hid hind it were left to cavil, He who loves here and now’s a happy man. Past, a flightless bird, primes its wings in vain, A dodo buried under sn......

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Categories: flightless bird, happiness, history,
Form: Villanelle
Death Online
...Unsupported website… wingless flightless bird Distant echo of keystrokes past —lost abandoned words (Dreamsleep: January, 2022)......

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Categories: flightless bird, words,
Form: Rhyme
Another Poem About Despair
...I saw a songbird sing Joyful she was with her song of hope No tears in her eyes Just the sunshine and the baby blue skies I heard her sing her song of admiration Her song filled with the sweet ......

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Categories: flightless bird, desire,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Gift, the Truth, Hope and Its Sweet Promise
...The Gift, The Truth, Hope And Its Sweet Promise Your hope- you have gifted unto me unto me, a vagabond shifting sand a flightless bird lost in its plumage under a great and mighty oak tree abo......

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Categories: flightless bird, art, creation, deep, hope,
Form: Free verse
Painting Pictures With Words
...A shimmering sun Illuminating rays of fun Sparkling ocean A universe's devotion It could be tragic To capture the magic Let the colors free For exuberant eyes to see A dazzling dance ......

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Categories: flightless bird, encouraging, happy, poetry,
Form: Free verse
False Wishes
...You seem happy But of course, everyone puts on an act A full face of non-existent make up You put it on before you take the first step out your door I do not despise all happy people But I pre......

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Categories: flightless bird, abuse, betrayal, bird, love
Form: Blank verse
A Raven's Pain
...a flightless bird too sore to soar, for i’m a raven wearing pain- fear begins a tragical war, whispers from sated stars remain i kept secrets until you died, for you are the one i ......

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Categories: flightless bird, anxiety, metaphor, sorrow,
Form: Quatern
Passivity
...For want of full virtuous zeal oligarchs thrive Against deserving clamor for brighter ideals; And perennially trampled commoners groan Under weight no inured villain distantly feels. Bereft o......

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Categories: flightless bird, abuse, allegory, betrayal, hope,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Flightless Bird
...it’s off the beaten path this adventure she’s living her courage and imagination an effervescent passion her mom can’t fathom and follows her accomplishments with pure delight and silently wi......

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Categories: flightless bird, fantasy, imagination, inspiration, passion,
Form: Free verse
Origami
...Oh paper crane, how I wish upon you to carry me afar, my childhood spent as a flightless bird, my wings stifled by the hands of a mother who loved me too much to let me be free. Oh, crane, ......

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Categories: flightless bird, bird, flying,
Form: Free verse

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