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Below are the all-time best Cranes poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of cranes poems written by PoetrySoup members

Haiku Cranes

Stately red crowned cranes

prancing in the snowy field ~

my tallest sister....

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Categories: cranes, dance,
Form: Haiku

A Thousand Paper Cranes: Sen-Zu-Baru

winged wishes 
 folded in prayer and love.... 
a thousand paper cranes...

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Categories: cranes, courage, dedication, earth, inspirational,
Form: Senryu

Dance of Cranes On Coming Home

It waits on the wedge of a field
no longer lonely, another
 floats in for a landing above
 a sea of yellow flowers

Who will  forget...

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Categories: cranes, absence, beauty, bird, nature,
Form: Free verse

Cranes In Migration

Cranes fly miles 
During the winter 
Migrating birds 
Hoping to reach their destiny. 

Buzzards along the way 
Look for pigeons 
That seek to feasts and...

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Categories: cranes, nature
Form: Blank verse

Wings of Cranes




On the wings of cranes
Hope travels - in search of warmth ;
And Departed Soul


(C) Anindya Mohan Tagore (Bobby)

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Categories: cranes, bird, death, flying, hope,
Form: Haiku

White Cranes

grassy Aerodrome
                       ...

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Categories: cranes, bird,
Form: Haiku

The Cranes of Ibycus - From the Sibyl, By David Austin

Ibycus was on his way to a music festival when he was set upon by robbers. While dying a wave of cranes flew over. Ibycus...

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Categories: cranes, history, music, music,
Form: Free verse

The Cranes

Starving  cranes 
In  the  shallow  stream
Fishing  food...

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Categories: cranes, nature,
Form: Haiku

Ruf Der Kraniche/ Call of the Cranes/El Grito De Las Grullas

Aus weiter Ferne
Ertönt der Ruf der Kraniche
Am späten Mittag

Über den Wiesen am Wald
Liegt noch milchig der Nebel

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From a far distance
Sounds the call of the cranes
Late...

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Categories: cranes, animals
Form: Tanka

Yellow Cranes

where the hell
do they come from? 
and where do they go
after the work is finished? 
I still wait for the day
when they will rise
from landscape...

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Categories: cranes, humanity, nature, surreal, yellow,
Form: Free verse

Paper Cranes


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Categories: cranes, peace,
Form: Free verse

The Cranes of Ibycus

In Greek mythology Ibycus is robbed and killed on his way to a musical competition. He 
appeals to some cranes overhead to avenge his cause...

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Categories: cranes, death, history, imagination
Form: Free verse

Sandhill Cranes

freeze you bitter sky
skittish three trumpeting call-
dark legs trail behind

11/21/2018...

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Categories: cranes, bird, flying, food,
Form: Haiku

Kraniche / Cranes

Über den Herbstfeldern
Der Flügelschlag der Kraniche
Wie Windgesang

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Over autmn fields
A flock of cranes' beat of wings 
Like songs in the wind...

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Categories: cranes, animals
Form: Haiku

Cranes and Stars

told me an old man
Do you see our weaknesses?
I am you 
I am me in another day
do not talk with me about hunger
do not cross...

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Categories: cranes, body, me, men, old,
Form: Free verse