Best Jackdaws Poems
The Ardingly JackdawsTHE ARDINGLY JACKDAWS
The jackdaws know from prudent aviation
As they scan the land for real estate that's prime
In touch with best of value in location
The venerable old schools pass test of time
While feral doves and hawks migrate to city
Where humanity's detritus scatters wide
With copious pickings putrefied...
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Categories:
jackdaws, bird, nature,
Form:
Sonnet
JackdawsThe blackbird takes off from his perch on
this lone pine in the dairy pasture, winging towards the
sky with all his might but
the pine is pugnacious and bitter, sweltering in winter. Before he
travels a league from her she drops him dead from the sky, victim of...
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Categories:
jackdaws, animals
Form:
Free verse
The Gathering of the Jackdaws
Twice a day, the jackdaws gather in their thousands, in that same old tree
It is as if they only gather for a good old group meet and a bit of repartee
Standing in the garden you see them flying in their groups from overhead
As in...
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Categories:
jackdaws, bird, culture,
Form:
Couplet
Lifes JackdawsLife’s Jackdaws
I wish it were now! Yes now!? ?Seven tens and two years further along,
like that dead headed summer garden, you know the song, you a long time gone,
In your eyes I saw all the answers, to all those questions which I never knew then,
you...
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Categories:
jackdaws, bird,
Form:
Rhyme