spotted woodpecker
Categories:
bird,
Form: Haiku
swan
Categories:
bird,
Form: Haiku
help from a myna birdI hear my ringtone
is that my phone?
I check, but there are no messages or calls.
Floyd, my myna bird is laughing with my Uncle Pete’s laugh.
Now he is imitating grandma Bee’s snoring noises.
He is such a trickster; an expert mimic, he is one of my favorite toys
briiiiiiing briiiiiiing briiiiiiing briiiiiiing briiiiiiing ...
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Categories:
bird,
Form: Rhyme
cuckoo tricks bush warblerthe cuckoo is a lazy trickster
she lays her eggs in bush warbler’s nest
remember Mayzie LaBird in Dr. Seuss’s book Horton Hears the Who?
Bush warbler is tricked by cuckoo bird.
She thinks the eggs are hers.
Takes care of them until they hatch
And then raises cuckoo’s baby as her own....
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Categories:
bird,
Form: Free verse
owls sharp ears
Categories:
bird,
Form: Haiku
eagle patronus
Categories:
bird,
Form: Haiku
Tough Lovemom fed baby birds
pushed out of the nest by mom
they must learn to fly
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Categories:
bird, fear, food, life,
Form: Senryu
The BirdDid not the Bird,
warn us, by his airs?
Fewer by day...more by
night – the owls survive
longer! Did not rodents
warn us? Depleted by
owls, they both now suffer.
Better men open their eyes
to Light – for, even swooping
shadows, will not long survive
such night…....
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Categories:
abuse, bird, christian, community,
Form: Free verse
birdspeak I hearturkey turkey
trick or treat
peter peter
jiminy jiminy
birdspeak in the forest...
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Categories:
bird,
Form: Free verse
The Quiet Things That Saved MeI was saved by quiet things—
The rustle of the morning breeze,
The way the robin spreads its wings,
The golden drift of autumn leaves.
I was saved by threads of light
That touched my skin through broken blinds,
By distant stars that pierced the night,
By echoes I had left behind.
I was saved by falling rain—
The softest tears the sky could...
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Categories:
bird, health, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
Footsteps of a Sparrow
I watch
colors distort into
dots tiptoeing on the white wall
Black target expands—engulfs—
flitting between rear and front sight
Blood drums in my ears—tides
I ride with breath held shallow
It hums, the shadow—
taunts with broken birdsongs
It knows, all it takes is
a skipped heartbeat
for a sniper to fall
Countdown.
Lens focusing into center
breaths narrow into blade, inhale—
The world refined to
a...
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Categories:
analogy, bird, music, snow,
Form: Free verse
I'm MagicWhen just a lad, I thought I was magic,
Doing a trick can sometimes be tragic.
The bird sang the wrong song,
The rabbit was long gone,
When they booed, I got very dramatic.
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Categories:
animal, bird, fun, immigration,
Form: Limerick
Writing Like the Dickens
It’s so hard to start
Brain and pen, poles apart
Yet two lines in, the pace quickens
Soon you’re writing like the dickens
Thoughts stream in and out your head
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Categories:
bird, flying, river, words,
Form: Couplet
My Magpies
Morning magpies warble loudly
Sitting in the treetops proudly.
Greet us singing, early sunrise
Warble loudly morning magpies.
Melodies sweet always bringing
Early sunrise, greet us singing.
All synchronised twitter and tweet
Always bringing melodies sweet
When together they’re harmonised
Twitter and tweet all synchronised.
Clear sunshine or rainy weather
They're harmonised when together
These magpies I am glad their mine
Rainy weather or clear sunshine.
Around, always...
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Categories:
bird, tree,
Form: Quatrain
Cardinal
(C)alling out for his mate
(A)lone in the misty morning
(R)ed wings flap with desire
(D)reaming of love at sunrise
(I)gniting a flame in his heart
(N)ow the blissful day begins
(A)ll the clouds above, drift by
(L)ove falls like rain; she arrives
Heidi Sands
7/10/25
(C)opyright
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Categories:
bird, love,
Form: Acrostic
Specific Types of Bird Poems
Definition | What is Bird in Poetry?