Best Jaybirds Poems

For some reason, Thursdays find me warped both in a space of inertia and hyperactivity. Perhaps the anticipation from hitting work deadlines on a Friday creates havoc within my frail psyche.


Half-awake, I forget the kitchen's GPS--where is it?
With lungs soaked on oolong tea leaves, 
Fingers...

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lavender florets
sway their hems to a gold wind...
as
queen bee jiggles


aisle of lush gardens 
invite morn's jaybirds on flight...
coo
cooing sweet tunes


dew bathes newborn plants
evergreen their christened ribs...
from
heaven's blessings


such bright assemblage
displays lush April's glory
when 
spring thrills charmed hearts




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It all started with a simple hello, creating friendship,
To what is now considered wonderful companionship.
Through bad or better days, my heart is where you’ll stay…
You got that Sugar Honey Ice Tea babygirl, and I mean that in a good way.

You give me those feelings I...

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The Persistence of a Memory of Apricot Shampoo
by Michael R. Burch

For all that I remembered, I forgot
her name, her face, the reason that we loved...
and yet I hold her close within my thought:
I feel the burnished weight of auburn hair
that fell across her face, the...

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June rainfall comes, jaybirds alight
waking the slumber of the night 
treetops tremble; almost a fall
and windows creak like shadow's bite 
ringing on walls-- a grumbled fight
while long prayers silence my call....

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everyday we get one day closer
to the day that we will die
everyday one day closer
to the secrets that we now hide

now it can be told
by the ones who find the truth
so and so was such and such
ever sence they were in their youth

death will rob...

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Once again its that time again
to set the clock ahead,
losing one hour of time
for the seasonal chime,

For the vernal equinox ushers
in warmer longer days,
while the on and off rain
gives us a misty haze,

Begonias, petunias, sunflowers
all once again come alive,
while the bees start buzzing
around making new...

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Regina was so ecstatic to meet Cousin Joe.
With the following words, she wanted to let me know:
“Wow, Joe’s appearance is so similar to yours, Mike!
Not since Patty Duke have two cousins looked so alike!”
In sharp contrast, Joe displayed a reticent outlook.
He might have thought this...

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From a deep coma, I slip away  
Where the yellow moths and poppies sway 
And the gentle sun pours crimson gold,
On meadows burnished  since time of old. 

It is here that jaybirds decked in fresh reds 
Whistle dreamy tunes like morn's newly weds,...

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she sits under a weeping willow and sways

turns to the wind for advice and hears thunder

tunes in to rainfall lightening and her heartbeat

stumbles and stutters for she is one in suspense


valves in her mind leak blood sweat and tears

just a little rest she whispers as...

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Talk therapy
among braver angels
and curious devilish advocates,

Evolves natural contemplative thoughts
of healthy minds and bodies
felt sacredly neuro-systemic

Organic
dynamic systems
reconnecting sensory consciousness
and mindful sexual experience
with worldviews recombining
Liberal YangTruth and Conserving YintegralBeauty
in co-empathic compassion

Nonviolently hopeful
win/win bicameral intelligence
exploring why

And healthy when

And safely now
remembering all those many public times
I have found...

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Day has passed ,night is soundless as death and dormant peace
                                  ...

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Now this one is really and totally absurd
A naughty limerick, naughtiest ever heard
But yours truly's got more
Some limericks hardcore
Where me and my friends are naked old jaybirds...

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Might our 'fear of the future' be last 'leg' we stand on,
Does marginal intellect harbor our doom?
And is Science an asteroid, life's new grim reaper
Or given by God to provide us more room?

Is there shame in the fact that all known life is star-based,
That dust...

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Remembered Moments
                         by Odin Roark

As dawn brought first light
Ears perked up
Tails wagged
Dewdrops sparkled
Little fists rubbed eyes open
Jaybirds appeared from nowhere
Copper and...

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