Best Cardinal Poems

a red cardinal

flies down on the silent grave - 

the time for closure


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For the contest of Tania Kitchin
19th January, 2021
Placed 3rd...

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The years have stolen details from my mind.
Your face, once clear, has faded like a print
Within an album ready to unbind
And plunder from this sadness any hint

Of thinning strands and laughing lines around
The sweetest smile and brightest silver eyes.
I walk across the white, half-frozen ground.
As...

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The brittle stems of Queen Anne's Lace
reduced to barren winter bone;
a hoarfrost Ermine coat embrace,
impaled in soil that's turned to stone.

The flowers now are wicker cups,
wear Bowler's hats of purest white;
the snowflakes that they interrupt
await the wind; resume their flight.

The Junco in the Prairie Grass,
drad...

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leading to our room. . .
fragrant petals you had strewn 
        cardinal roses 
whose hue was that of the sky
when passion first bloomed for us.

Feb. 18, 2022
for 'A BRIAN STRAND TANKA' Poetry Contest...

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male red cardinal
rules the feed trough by strong force...
nuthatcher eats seed

I was watching the birds at 
some food that I had placed 
out on a steroform plate..
A Male Red Cardinal would
run all the birds away then
this tiny little Nuthatcher
would fly in and get one
seed..The Cardinal...

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dead red cardinal
swarmed by sugar ant workers....
cat's supper consumed  ...

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Cardinal On The Bough
Flashing Crimson In The White
He Takes Flight In Fog...

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Light snow hushes the drab, winter sky
as she places a small white rose upon
the gravestone of her innocent one
lost in the early bloom of dawn. 

A singular chirping song resounds 
within drooping arms of frozen trees
she spies a sprightly cardinal bird
flitting like a red ribbon...

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Dressed in bright red, standing proud
Feathers flapping bright, magnificently loud
Chirping, composing a love song
Take notice, in a flash he'll be gone
Happily feasting on seed all alone 
Brown feathers appear, she's at his throne...

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welcoming songbird beckons sun
berry bright singer on snowy landscape
tragedy’s summer sting leaves me undone

warm tears still fall on autumn leaves
till winter shrugs its cold shoulder
ushers isolation as my somber heart grieves

return, wee harbinger of spirit connection
your engaging trill evokes smiles
and his voice fills me with...

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a cardinal came
daily in winter's garden....
after daddy's death  



May you come to find comfort in and remember:
Cardinals appear when angels are near.
So go now, sit outside and drink your tea.
Keep a look out for the little red bird —
It is there, your loved one...

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like a feathered rose 
the male is most colorful 
black masked and robust 

an angel is near 
when a cardinal appears 
in your home or yard 



Haiku Poetry Contest 
Sponsor: Tania Kitchen 1/18/2021...

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Quote: Both the enchantress and the siren charmer 
are part of the same one.   

Fired red wings on the breath of a dawning 
he lifts and soars towards life, a breath away
from sunrise, chittering before he takes swing
this cardinal of beauty knows how...

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small songbird cardinal
your bush cut down from the storm
small cardinal no more...

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A rhapsodic delight in a carmine feathered coat,
a cardinal sits amid the verdigris limbs;
with breast puffed out
he croons lovely tones as
vibrations of harmony 
to my ears;
Ah, nature is bliss!

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