Best Flightless Poems

Flightless Birds Trapped In A Gilded Cage.
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Fledgling innocents incarcerated in a gilded ornate cage
Budding pretty flowers 
Within the blossoming of youth
Of tender sensitive age
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Born into an imperial dynasty
By destiny and decree 
A view from a palace window
To the outside world
Was all they’d often see
Far...

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Says the ostrich to the emu with sigh,

   "We have a pair of wings yet cannot fly!

      I guess its just our bad luck

         That we can't cruise like a...

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Pay attention! 
Important chicken poetry coming up, 
though no binary fantasies shall deconstruct 
into raucous biddy enjambment. 


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Grandfatber always kicked Grandmother's chickens away 
while he sat whittling under the Oak, 
Those ruddy, Cherokee cheeks sweating even in the shade 
as sweltering Carolina summers...

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A single branch, clawed and pecked, fickle and straining,
Lonely Nestling and father, paw and peck at their home
Lonely branch, spasms in the wind
Nestling and father paw and peck, yearn and whimper
These Flightless Birds, on a fickle branch

Young nestling skitters to the branch’s edge
Peers over on...

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Flightless Angel


Incarnate, Florence Nightingale
Like a lily-white flightless Angel,
Did she not turn me from Hades
With the beckon of her shades?
With needles, scissors & strings
You’d say she clipped her wings;
Laying all supine where I bled
To land and to wipe all the red!

Was it vertigo or just a...

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I tried and failed so many times
This one here is sure fly

Here is how the others went
A journey on paper not well spent

My pen won't flow my pencil lead broke
I tried in crayon it never spoke

Lots of colors went in the can 
One came out...

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Flightless Old Birds

I spill ink upon a most sadden page
life of youth was once all the rage
Good times were to readily be had
even a dull day was not all that bad
For each new morn brought renewed hope
nothing, nothing seem beyond our scope

This ink sets in...

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Grandma's old corn sheller 
rests upstairs in an attic in Portland, 
Oregon; 
Mother got it before 
the sisters, cousins and aunts 
(who got the purple tea pot 
and hand-made egg basket) 
could; 
It could still shell corn 
for Rhode Island Reds or White Leghorns...

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Your love has made me weary
Your eyes do light the way
Your lips must taste like berries 
Or chocolates far away
Your hair smells like vanilla
Just ask me and I’ll stay
To hold you in my strongest arms
And in the grass we’ll lay.

I love your voice the sweetest...

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The robin that shuddered from the island of the lake,
The robin that tossed until each feather was a flake,
The robin in the wind that watched the waters awake,
Robin red-breast numb with ache.


For the rhyme-battle 2 competition...

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Upon the branch of wasted nothing
Where hampered flight upon crushed wing
Seldom do days come shorter
When seldom is there reason to sing
But to push out from unhappy nest
Without course to fly
Better to fall and lay at rest
Then yearn for unreciprocating sky...

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Maybe if I felt more useful

I wouldn't feel quite useless

Maybe if I was told I could be

I could have been more then you saw me

Perhaps if I was convinced 

Wouldn't have required the urge  false represent 

Could have been a someone

If I could have...

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I cannot fathom all the things I've tried,
To at last, find comfort in your presence,
to turn the tide, and prove my time well spent,
Then toss all disillusioned thoughts aside.
Oh strife, oh strife, I pray through days and nights
To at last, feel welcomed by your harsh...

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Wake Our Dawns As True Beautiful Flightless Angels

Sweet small offerings I give to you
Till your hands say a fine hello
The months wear thinly our hungers
I can almost hear your voice
Standing in the valley of abstinence
Nights peering into blasting moonlight
Out of my deep loving heart
Flows great...

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I'm losing control tonight
I've decided to search for something else
I will close my eyes for my mind to take flight
And buy time for moments it'll sell

I can see her eyes if I wanted to
But I am not to hold her like I know
To almost feel...

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