Best Cardinals Poems

two male cardinals
fight over territory....
corn tassels rustle   


in an instant from the kitchen window view...

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red-yellow cardinals

red cardinals flock
 perch on budding maple branch ~
  gold cardinals strut

1-18-21
Contest: Cardinal, Blue Jay, Chickadee Haiku
Sponsor: Tania Kitchin...

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male cardinal feeds
upon last years pepper seeds  
in between rain storms

a delightful time to look 
out my kitchen window pane  ...

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A Cardinal’s trill, peep…peep…peep…peep…peep…
often full of himself, wakes me from sleep.
peep…peep…pretty…pretty…pretty; rings out his bliss;
across Kentucky’s bluegrass in the morning mist.

A tad egocentric but, he’s allowed;
his bright red plumes make him oh, so proud.
He’s a splash of color in the trees, 
a scarlet, rose red...

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Flock of Red Cardinals
Visit bird bath 
Only small amount of water
No rain for weeks
One eats Rudbeckia seeds  

Gogyohka Form...

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two cardinals come
male~female at the feeder...
male gives female food

kisses mixed with seed
male proves his trustworthiness...
more romance follows 

Sponsor:Poetess Darkly
Contest: A Kiss Is Just A Kiss
Written This Twenty-Fifth Day Of July 2013...

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Opposing players join the gridiron in the valley of the sun
They feel the tension of the battle that is yet to come.

A calm then descends the playing field and the painted desert sky
Our team the Arizona Cardinals take to the field ready to fly.

The Red...

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no cardinals feed
nor masked nuthatchers seed eat..
bare willow limbs weep

Written November 27, 2012
It was cloudy, cold, and raining.....

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hanging on the tree                                         ...

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five male cardinals
come to the bird bath's water...
brown oak leaves frozen  ...

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Cardinals visit
Late dusk and early dawn
Reminder of time.


(January 10, 2011  Wausau, Wisconsin)

(c) Copyright 2011 by Christine A Kysely, All Rights Reserved,...

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Fresh snowflakes are gently falling from the sky
Blanketing the ground white, no longer brown and dry
The snow topped bird feeders are now swaying in the wind
And appear to be almost empty with the seeds very thinned

I quickly gathered my containers of sunflower seeds and suet...

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Nobody walks here anymore
Nobody listen to them anymore
The grass has grown out of control
And the wind  has battered them to the ground
In the midst of the dense woods 
the road lingers between the tall  grass
and the muddy stream
Many streams are are moving from...

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A Walk in the Park

                                  A walk in the park
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