Best Canary Poems

My sweet canary just loves to sing,
with his yellow beak and golden wing.
His lovely songs will make you shake,
all other tunes will sound a fake.
But as I sit and think alone,
I feel my heart is made of stone.
My precious bird could be my sin,
I keep...

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Atomic Canary
Angels seed
The death bell tolls to the masses
Putin ill be your dog
Netanyaho  ill be your dog
I love this land
This is where I want yo die

Sing a song
Soul from the Earth
All of us  tresspass    
Some other country wants your ass
Not...

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Caged in shadows
the canary breathes
amidst the clutter and din
of coal miners
who toil to extract
livelihoods
from veins underground
fortunes told
with its demise
too late for those who seek
fresh air and light
as families above ground
gather and wait
under a pale sun
for news
they feel in their veins
will come....

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I was a somber little bird behind the bars of my heart.
Afraid to open the door of my cage and make a new start.
I had been a happy canary till he turned into a scarecrow.
Sad birds don't sing love songs. I stopped singing long ago.
My...

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His name was Mr Cinnamon
and he loved to sing.

Lost among the masses yet within the throng
he lifted his head and began a song.
Without thought the mass would open and part
the burdened would feel an uplifted heart.
The songs, each one, were simple and pure
and none could...

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Yellow songsters chirp, 
Singing out their songs loudly;
Canary-speak, is sweet.

...

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You love to chase the old cow,
and make the kitten go meow,
I have put you in your place,
now no one left to chase.
I got you~let me take a bow....

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In Riverside, a bird used to live years ago
nearby the only window of his branch,
a big lovely tree, he often sing terrific warbling 
rhymed cool songs early in the morn
and so every day at sunset. I asked
Is it a canary bird flower with some other?
Who...

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There is a stolen railroad car named "Schmow".
The big question of the day is: "Where did it go?"
The Penciltucky Railroad would really like to know,
so they sent one of their detectives named Moe.

Inside the car is a spinster named Roberta
With her is her younger sister...

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Joe the Yellow Canary
Lives  next door to sweet Mary
A frog came in her house
Poor Mary gave a big rouse
Joe gave a shriek like fury ...

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Knew a young lady named Cherie
Had an attitude that was always merry
Tripped on a stone
Broke a few bones
She certainly didn't sing like a canary


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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His mind was full of bonfires
his chest full of mustard gas
as he coughed all day
If only I could die
he would have thought
if he could have thought.

She sat beside him holding  his hand,
her face pock-marked and yellow
from the munitions factory
No one knew   
what...

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My parents said I could not keep the black, stray cat.
They explained our canary would not survive that.

Parents out, a sitter, and my four-year-old mind
Let the cat in and hoped for the best in due time.

I am ashamed to have plotted murder when four,
Sad an...

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Try to put feelings to thoughts,
thoughts to words.. 
weed out angry ones, hope for forgiveness 
in calling card verse.

beauty sings "won't be long" 
in clear air, beauty sings 
voice of the canary, what does it know
of better things.

Was I hard by you, did I lose...

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I can EXHALE

Not every day
Not every moment
BUT… 

I can EXHALE

The Corona virus still runs
RAMPANT
But the ORANGE plague
Has been removed
Has been dulled
Has been silenced

SILENCED (at least for now)...

By a baby blue canary
A seemingly docile creature 
With a ROBUST flock

An inhale of realism reminds us…

There is [still]...

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