Best Bittern Poems

I am the reed

Beak to the sky
Swaying in the breeze

I am the reed

I don't want to die
Don't see me please

I am the reed

There's nothing here
But...

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A bittern boomed

the vast marsh swallowed it~

mother calling me....

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 a faint booming note 
 deep in the everglades marsh ~ 
 a bird seldom seen 

 it's distinctive call 
 like a pebble...

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Grim fog, I praise the shelter of your drear,
the sundown ghost morose not grandiose,
I walk alone - but, no -- with my despair;
a bittern bids...

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The amaryllis yawns in bed of white 
The fall of day paints shadows on the rose 
Each flower is a ward of solemn night 
Their...

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Not a true Choka...but uses a 5,7,7,5,7,7 format 
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Chill, steaming vapour;           
Silence...

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We met on February the twelfth, (1998), smitten by her, that was I            ...

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The window the moon looks like an eye,
And the wolves are howling behind the wall
The outside world is cruel,
And someone in the darkness coming for...

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 Canadian geese
black cheeked... brown...  white tipped feathers
stormy ocean waves 

barnacle geese
hibernate as barnacles
for some... once a thought

starlings murmurate
whispers of countless wings
safty in numbers

hark...

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Sitting on the back porch on a balmy summers morn
and listening to the music of the dawn
wondering who sang the song and where the bird...

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the light of all life
sol...illuminating all
false statement

false statement
sol...illuminating all
the light of all life

distant horizons
the edge of the world
guarded by retards

guarded by retards
the edge of the...

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Lance-Lot
by Michael R. Burch

Preposterous bird!
Inelegant! Absurd!

Until the great & mighty heron
brandishes his fearsome sword.

Keywords/Tags: Nature, Animal, Bird, Birds, Heron, Herons, Fish, Fishing, River, Ocean, Ardeidae,...

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You…my friend…my only friend
Broken, broken again
Torn to shreds by a different end
Cast away into a distant land
To meditate, to become strong willed
To pick up the...

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Stop and look, stop and listen

Nature’s here around us 
Natures’ birds sing sweet melodies

The scent of wild flowers in the meadows
The bluebells so delicate under...

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??Isaiah 14:12-23 KJVAAE??
[12]  How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which...

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