Best Harbingers Poems

Surmised, assumed 
 Foreboding shadows brood 
 Like omens without mediums 
 Their strange impressions loom

 Blind they seem 
 Gloating as they gleam 
 Rippling, murmuring 
 Stifling a scream 

 On the brink of speech 
 Their mutterings recede 
 Occupied by the...

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Echoes of Spring from the streets,
Laughter and shouting greets
My ear, in a jubilant noise:
Raucous, wild neighbor boys....

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long stretched-out nights shrink
icicles melt drip by drip...
wild geese honk in flight

pushing through thawed soil
shoots rise up toward the sun...
crocuses sprouting 

green dapples the trees
winter slowly slips away...
short days grow longer

a change in seasons
life gets rejuvenated...
color’s replenished

harbingers of spring...
songbirds sweetly sing...

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robin zugunruhe
migratory restlessness—
singing their way north







Robin Image credit:  Michael Lamarche

Graphic image by Mark Toney using Canva Pro

“Robins are feeling restless. Ornithologists call this pre-migratory restlessness, zugunruhe. This German word comes from zug (move, migration) and unruhe (anxiety, restlessness).” — Journey North (American Robin) -...

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Snow melting, icicles dripping from the eave
Hint that winter’s frigid air may soon leave,
Replaced by warm breezes from the south
In swampy bayous return the cottonmouth.
When mulberry buds are ready to burst
Buttercups turn upward like they thirst,
My lawn will glow with sweet dandelions
In nature the colors...

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Harbingers of Hollow 


In my habitual haunting hysteria
I digress to an abandoned area
Voids of dimming dissolving glow
The hermetic harbingers of hollow

Landscapes of secluded shadow
In cathedrals of cacophony grow
A salient soul spiritually spiraled
Within perpetual rags apparelled

My ambient apocalypse of night
Demons joy to my severed sight
Within my...

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Harbingers of Hollow


In my habitual haunting hysteria
I digress to an abandoned area

Voids of dimming dissolving glow
The hermetic harbingers of hollow

Landscapes of secluded shadow
In cathedrals of cacophony grow

A salient soul spiritually spiraled
Within perpetual rags apparelled

My ambient apocalypse of night
Demons joy to my severed sight

Within my chaotic...

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One of the four angelic messenger harbingers of doom, drew a large red line
from California, to Oregon and to Washington State. Clearly indicating the
exact boundaries where disaster was soon to strike!  This single large Tsunami
wave was to completely cover all three Pacific Coastal states...

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Snowdrops, daffodils, and tulips; harbingers of spring,
   gather to announce life’s rebirth, fueled by sunshine.
       Nature’s plants get renewed, and songbirds sing nesting songs,
           rejoicing as April...

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HARBINGERS OF SNOW


                   A cacophony of Chickadees arise out of the thicket,
               ...

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HARBINGERS OF MORNING



Seam-splitting the rim of an eastern sky,
morning's radiant golds  
grading 
down the rimpled brow of mountains
            leapfrogs
    out of the high hilled horizon
 with the sun
come upon the...

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Who will be the harbinger of a new order

Who will see the signals and the approaching vision

That lifts up our humanity and starts it evolving

That unifies and breaks down boundaries

And ends all man made divisions

Never have people craved so much

To place themselves inside a box

To...

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