Best Birds Of Paradise Poems

Birds of paradise bloom and fall like a shooting star,
Red ones are juxtaposing lips when wrens are kissing;
Brilliantly gliding from huge foliage seen from afar.

They marvelously stand and hung on where they are,
In kaleidoscope of colors,  they’re all glistening;
Birds of paradise bloom and fall...

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Birds of Paradise,
those lovely colourful gems 
high up in the Jacaranda. 
Can still hear their mating call
Their brilliant plumage shining 
like some vivid precious stones,
moving rainbows between leaves
fluttering feast of splendour



For Deborah's "Foreign Exchange" contest.

Germany

Note: This is not a Tanka, but there is no category...

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When some Birds-of-Paradise sit to dine,
they may eat a fruit like a clementine.
Others prefer an insect to a plant,
favoring a futilely praying mantis....

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In the tropics I have held temptation,
By its tail not to pluck beauty pieces,
Orchids in play with the coleus leaves,
Ever green bottle palms and ferns in relief;

Twined creepers as they toss in the moist breeze,
Provoke colorful beak birds to observe,
Natural life as it flowers freely;
Beckons...

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gray days are make believe,
with a scintilla of birdsong,
almost annoying in its tease,
like a chimerical haze.

hope remembers the sun,
its shining rays,
elaborate feathers,
and paradisiacal dance.

green moss, creeping ivy,
budding oaks, streamers
of newborn pink willow,
stunning blue eyes of paradise

these Winter bones ache...

2/9/2018
Brian Strand’s 2018 Standard Contest...

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Paradiesvögel balzen
Im Astwerk des Jacarandasbaumes
Farbenspiel zwischen Blüten

Im Wasser des nahen Sees
Suchen Wasserbüffel Kühlung



Birds of Paradise's pairing time 
In the branches of a Jacaranda
Opalescence of colours

In the water of the near lake
Water buffalooes look for cooling...

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The thought of marriage scares me blind 
It controls everything 
Including your mind 
I am a free spirit
A walking soul 
But I have a hard time letting to
The thought of love just scares me now
It has bruised me so bad
I don't think I’ll ever go...

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Birds of Paradise
 

As you move toward the door
to open it so I may leave
I notice how your Levis cage
 
the anacondas of your thighs.
One more move like that, I say,
and I’ll toss my briefcase to the floor
 
and bring you yipping to the couch
and...

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The birds of paradise take flight,
Their feathers dance in sunlit skies,
In vibrant hues, they blaze so bright.
The birds of paradise take flight,
Through jungle canopies, their light,
A living dream before our eyes,
The birds of paradise take flight,
Their feathers dance in sunlit skies.

The birds of paradise take...

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Brightly coloured plumage; exotic and appealing
Birds of paradise conveying visions of pride
The multicoloured duplicities hide
The truths that they are stealing...

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Here are two versions of this poem. One I wrote today, other one I found later. I am writing poems after almost 10 years. I still don't have the muse as evidenced by the following poems. Eventually I will catch up. I need your encouragement....

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Skinkle, skinkle who is there?

Under the Moon you gleam like gem

Above the tree you dream, not hem

Strinkle, strinkle birds in pair!...

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