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Best Hornbill Poems

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Premium Member Hornbill Conversation
The Missus is angry, Rufous told his wife.
Are you sure? She sounds like that a lot.
Her husband just flew off with the babysitter.
That young thing!...

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Categories: hornbill, bird,
Form: Prose Poetry



Death of a Malabar Grey Hornbill
That car swishes 
along the forest road.
Who cares 
about a poor bird in the age of lynching?
Its beak with berries in it 
freezes. 
Its mate...

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Categories: hornbill, bird,
Form: Free verse
Superstition
hornbill knocked on wood..

                    superstition understood..

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Categories: hornbill, animals, mystery, seasons,
Form: Haiku
Sumatran Tiger
Through the forests of Sumatra
Through the dark and sweaty jungle
Proud and fearless pads the tiger
Pads through bamboo, palm, liana
Powerfully swims across the water
Webbed feet pounding...

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© Mike Jones  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hornbill, animal, education, environment, tiger,
Form: Blank verse
Ivory
They each have a yellow extension,
Sure there is much more to mention,
Each is known to do a lot to protect,
Neither is known to get much...

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Categories: hornbill, dedication, devotion, nature, poems,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Wild Thing You Make My Heart Sing
We have gone to the Kruger Park, and are now back,
All roads there are paved,
But for adventure, you can drive along very doable
Sand roads, the...

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Categories: hornbill, animal,
Form: Narrative
Through a Dense Forest of the Western Ghats
On a hazy day, in the mid of the jungle
through the dense rain forest, we trek;
Where astounding waterfalls spread smoke
and the various birds sing melodious...

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Categories: hornbill, animal, beautiful, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Cm For a Leader
CM For A Leader

There lies in him lots of practical wisdom in the thoughts of the Sarawak CM.....
He knows his mind and doing his best...

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Categories: hornbill, appreciation, blessing, character, community,
Form: Narrative
Change
I rose to the sing-song of 
a hornbill
Engaging my morning wrath
in a tease
I graced a sleepy track
with hazy youthful turns
and endless dreamy twists
that end on...

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Categories: hornbill, change,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Which Bird Shall I Be
Which flying bird shall I choose to be?
Would Bird of Paradise suit me?
Owl, falcon or hawk might be fun.
Bohemian waxwing is on the run.
Trumpeter Hornbill...

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Categories: hornbill, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Litter Swept the Earth
The fall is being chased by the restless earth
Longing for self-destruct
Melting peat in soil melting contest
Bind the selected space guard
Carbon in the seepage of the...

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Categories: hornbill, earth, environment, motivation,
Form: Free verse
Omens and Wings
Random thots
Two hornbills
On a grevillea tree
I look at them eat seed
They soar noisily onwards
Towards the next seedy tree
Send pigeons I had asked Of
Hornbills problems am...

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Categories: hornbill, extended metaphor, word play,
Form: Imagism
The Homeward Call
The swallowtail butterfly defying all distance
Hold its course against the sun
And seek through space a migrant's chance
Of flying to the land of its birth

The hornbill...

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Categories: hornbill, inspirational, nature, seasonsme,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Chalice of the Night- Reality Or Illusion
Thirst! Thirst!
Scorching thirst!
What a terrible night!

From head to groin
From hip to tip,
Fire rages.
My entrails shriek and crackle,
As twigs in a forest fire.
My nostrils flare,
With the...

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Categories: hornbill, betrayal, drink, loss, night,
Form: Free verse
Taste of Freedom
trout leaps, splashes back
                     ...

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Categories: hornbill, animals, nature, seasons,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs