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Best Cuckoos Poems

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Tributaries Of Black Tulips - Collaboration with 'Ink Empress'

When heinous fangs
of life drain
the amethyst glow
flowing above 
infected ripples of time,
I question the 
chaos that claims
serenity through 
saline serenade 
of sirens, composed 
with midnight...

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Categories: cuckoos, black love, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Remember the Ovens
Cuckoos hushed, rambling vines and plight.
Hordes of birch, beech, pine, spruce and oak.
Choke of darkness, forcing midnight.
Wax and breadcrumbs children-ditched folks.

Hordes of birch, beech, pine,...

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Categories: cuckoos, allusion, angst,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Zoo's Who
Paula parrot is my name. I'm from the wild, but now I'm tame
A chatterbox who likes to talk! 
Have news to share? Let's take a...

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Categories: cuckoos, animal,
Form: Personification
My Garden and the Spring
It is spring in my garden
roses are blooming
cuckoos are crying
The winter has been passed
summer is coming
It is so easy to write a poem in the...

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Categories: cuckoos, garden, spring,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Dandy's Cuckoo Clock
On a spotty, sprinkled day, at the Plott's house on the block,
A squatty Uncle Scotty had sent a polka dotted,  cuckoo clock!
The family said...

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Categories: cuckoos, childrenhouse, house,
Form: Rhyme



Imagination
The day will come....
When I would touch the
Waves of the Air
I would fly with Birds
I would dance with Peacock
the day will come....


The day will come...
When...

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Categories: cuckoos, animal, bird, freedom, happy,
Form: Free verse
When Flowers Dream
On Earth's bare bosom, do flowers dream?
A panoply of beauty flitting from flower to flower, 
with bees reeling drunk in their ecstasy.
As a flock of...

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Categories: cuckoos, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lulling Symphonies of My Land
Guarded by towering hills on the East 
And flanked by the Arabian Sea on the West
With its easterly shore of stretching sandy swell 
That lulls...

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Categories: cuckoos, appreciation, home, music,
Form: Free verse
An Everlasting Gift
I read in solitude, I found peace.
I read with love, I felt exulted.
I read when I was lonely, I got a companion.
I read when I...

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Categories: cuckoos, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
The Mockingbird
I just forgot that song of robin
when I heard the blue jay notes.
Resonating tunes of cardinals
merry cuckoos mingle my throat.
They call me mimicking mockingbird,
 a...

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Categories: cuckoos, bird, freedom,
Form: Personification
Echoes
Echoes


Every morning a man is seen to climb upon a hill

His mission there to bare witness 
To the suns flooding as she rises 
Her painted...

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Categories: cuckoos, loveheart, sound, day, heart,
Form: Free verse
Ode To the Music
Lift me up to the sky by the notes 
Oh, flute by your captivating melodious tunes

Sing to my body and sing to my soul...

A lifeless...

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Categories: cuckoos, music,
Form: Ode
Will You Marry Me


The Sun dupes me at dusk - my world turns grey -
Leaving me alone with the distant stars...
Will you marry me on Valentine's Day?

Rivers have...

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Categories: cuckoos, for her, girlfriend, heart,
Form: Villanelle
Carpe Diem
Lovers gather, yelling "carpe diem"
Lovers kiss, living with totem
Lovers fall, counting walls
Lovers forget, crushing falls.

Love birds chirping as one
Under a tree skipping one by one
Above...

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Categories: cuckoos, funny love,
Form: Carpe Diem
Woodland Path
A woodland path in the dappled sun, hushed and quiet
Our feet carried us, it felt so right
The perfume of forgotten flowers
Enlightened the senses and passed...

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Categories: cuckoos, nature
Form: Rhyme Royal

Book: Shattered Sighs