Best Ibis Poems

national bird of 
Trinidad and Tobago
Caribbean Isle

the scarlet ibis
it is a tropical bird
bright red in color

it has a long neck
and it's bill is long and curved
feathers are black tipped

feet are slightly webbed
it's legs are long and skinny
with a wide wing span

beak is used to probe
in...

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The day that Pilate helped sentence
Jesus to the cross ---
People were proclaiming, that Ceaser
was their only boss ---
Although Pilate argued for Jesus
life to be spared ---
Few showed any mercy and even
less expressed that they cared ---
Finally after several attempts to save
Jesus from a cruel death...

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Sacred
Bird of the gods
Long legged wading fowl
Live in wetlands, forests and plains
Ibis...

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Idolized by pharaohs, monarchs and kings;
Bird of the wetlands, marshes and swamps.
Interesting forager with long bill and stilted long legs;
Sacred icon of the dynasties of yore....

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He's treading the shallows
at the border of the lake like 
a house cat kneading your lap,
his neck like radar, scanning a map
for morsels disingenuously believing 
the borders of the lake are Zen,
that the mire in which they anchor 
is armor against the avian, but then,...

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I have met the Ibis
The Sacred Bird of Knowledge
The reincarnation of Thoth
Whose Wisdom knows no end.

I now know why Theuth loved you as I do
Why Socrates used you as his Muse
For Arithmetic and All Calculations
For Astronomy and Draughts and Dice
For all invented ruminations.

I understand your...

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wetland water whirls
an ibis searches for crabs ~
foraging ballet

white feathers emerge
standing tall on bright pink stilts ~
bill crab prize displayed

grunts and cooing sounds
echo the wet marsh at dusk ~
ibis courting chant...

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I am the Ibis a sacred bird,
from distant lands of the ancients.

the land of pyramids,
lands of Arabia and Africa.

Bird of knowledge that is friend to the Gods.

Brave during storms my will is as strong
as a Hurricane.

I am the last to take shelter before
a storm approaches
and...

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young ibis 
soon to mature -
patchwork 

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Guará, the Brazilian Ibis
             as our guarana...
             from the atlantic forest
          ...

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oddly they swim where only yesterday
grass laid down and withered
having been subjected to the slasher’s blade

“Them be bin chickens” me mate once said
as we walked past them at the airport
not far from Tweed Heads

“bin chickens? I think not
as they plunge their long beaks 
into the...

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I am an Ibis, a wading bird.
Times have become quite absurd.
My family used to enjoy the wetlands.
The cool fresh water answered all our demands.
The global weather patterns have all changed.
The water situation is definitely rearranged.
Water in our habitat did just deteriorate.
Forcing us to fly east...

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