Best For The Birds Poems

The dawn has come; the birds outside
have gathered, seemingly to chide
me, chirping loudly in the trees.
They’re telling all they’re bird friends, “She’s
been staying in as if to hide!”

And sure enough, they haven’t lied.
A part of me feels like I’ve died
and vanished on a passing breeze.
The...

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Goose Lawsuit

    Gander
    Slander

Owl’s Knock Knock Joke

     Who Who
     Cuckoo?

Hen with Bad Illness

    Stricken
    Chicken

Bird Hits Windshield
 
    Smidgeon
   ...

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First there was the glamorized Birdman of Alcatraz
While in the White House lived Lady Bird and Lucy Bird
   Sesame Street, of course, brought us all Big Bird

The world of sports has given us a birds-eye view of
Larry Bird, Mark 'the Bird' Fydrich, not...

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Let the Fowls Go

Release
three geese

Fowl Abuse

I struck
my duck

Jokester Duck

Chuckling
Duckling

Crazy Bird Resort

The loon
Lagoon

Bird Mystery Novel

Who slew
Cuckoo?

The Welcomed Garden Bird

Again . . .
the wren!

Did you get enough to Drink?

Say when,
Gray wren

Most Revered Ones

Pharaoh’s
Sparrows

Bird Gazette Headline

Blind Larks
find parks

Bird Acquaintances

She knows
three crows...

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Bad-ass old bear:
Grizzly
Grizzy

Cougar from Arizona:
Yuma
Puma

Cowardly Cock-a-Doodle-Doer:
Chicken
Chicken

Un-cool Terrier:
Dorky
Yorkie

Larcenous bird:
Robbin'
Robin

Slave-driving beaver:
Dam it
Damn it!...

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Children in the schoolhouse
Chant a structured, uneasy song
“Risseldy-rosseldy
Mow-mow-mow"
Monkey Bars behind a bench...
She nervously lights a cigarette
Something is about to happen
A single crow lands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydLJtKlVVZw...

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I tell myself I do it for the birds.

They gather together
around flameless fires
feeding on warmth’s memory,
chattering amid the blowing leaves,
feathers puffed against the cold.

Their beauty undimmed by the
stark dark and light of barrenness
their songs no less beautiful
in the echoless emptiness,
their presence – undiminished.

Quietly, I leave...

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Marine alarm clock
You need no winding to work
Seagull sea rooster...

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Birds have always captured my imagination,
    They have such a beauty and a unique nature;
Oh, what an array of birds for my inspection,
    I write this for the birds that fly in the azure.

They have, such a beauty and...

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After mid morning coffee 
will stretch out to the store 
My piano to fetch

spread my fingers by a fine degree
 You're invited to bow a little
for today all honour must go to the birds

It will be a melody of gratitude
to the aves given us by...

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The hunter has become a guide for the birds,
his two faces
against two wings.

He has chopped down trees
to make a post
with small dried branches
for the birds to roost.

He has broken off flowers
to decorate this small tree
to cheer the birds.

He has put small stones
and large grains of...

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In a world of decayed morals
Where change happens in a blink
Choices are based on greed and sex
Soulmates are all but extinct

To say that people are joined at the hip
It's only a temporary thing
In these, "me first" times of self gratification
One simply just takes off their...

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There once was a land
they called Beautiful Tree
the best of the lands
where the birds want to be

Then, there were only
the Cards and the Jays
no other birds had yet 
flown in to stay

Nesting in groups
with a thickness of thieves
the flocks ever growing 
outnumbered the leaves

Soon there...

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I almost thought I blew it
‘Cause the birds had disappeared.
However I’d construe it,
They were gone – or so I feared.

But I went and bought some suet
Thinking that might bring them back
And before I even knew it,
They showed up to have a snack.

So before you’re thinking,...

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When someone says something off the wall
We say, “That’s for the birds,” but I wonder,
Do birds have an affinity for the ridiculous
This is something we might carefully ponder.

And who came up with “as the crow flies,”
As though they go the straightest distance
Between two points, and...

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