Best Jays Poems

A baseball fanatic, I am, I am
Blue Jays are in flight, holy hot damn
Bautista and crew
The ball they tattoo
Winners down to the very last man


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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Can't wait for baseball to start up again
The Blue Jays are favoured to clean up AMEN
They're certainly due
Since nineteen ninety-two
Our tongues hang out while cheering for them


© Jack Ellison 2016...

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Six blue jays converge at the birch
To sing their anomalous colloquial song,
They fashion a serene scene as they perch;
My mind so inclined to blindly sing along.

As I ponder their ways, in my midmorning daze;
I recall a tale my grandmother told—
Of a desolate day through a...

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It's two thousand sixteen, the year of the Jays
World Series Champs can't wait for that day
It's been a long wait
Worth the wait for that date
World Series champs and Toronto celebrates

(For Tim)


© Jack Ellison 2016...

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~God Is Lord~
(Jay's Way)


God is Lord
With Him I can do it all
Sees me thru everything and each time I fall
With God by side there's none I should fear
He always lends ear
Lord loves me
Safe soul be
Wants best for you too
He's always there to help you that's...

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tension in the air

                                     a love affair is a...

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The Jays are coming! The Jays are coming!
There's no stopping them, baseball's a-humming
Josh, José and Edwin
The heart of the engine
World Series rings are surely forthcoming


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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BLUE JAYS

beautiful thief
this darting flash of bright blue
ah     but there are two

strangers in the crowd
wonder where their nests are?
trees in early bloom

maybe just one nest
husband    wife in wedded bliss
cries from a tree top

bird for all seasons
a blue streak...

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distinct calling styles
marked blue jays’ God-endowed sounds…
forest grand chorale*

*Psalm 104:12 By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches. 

January 18, 2021
3rd place, "A Cardinal, Blue Jay, or Chickadee Haiku" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Tania Kitchin; judged on 1/22/2021....

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I hear birds singing in the trees
On the radio I listen to my favorite  tunes
         A butterfly floats by on the summer breeze
Buzzing by shortly after is a bumble bee

      ...

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Jays
wheel by
in tandem ,
a sky parade
roller coasting above verdant grassland. 

As harbingers of enchanted autumn
birdnotes usher
crisp morning--
red plumes
flung!



Tetractys This Poetry Contest
For charles messina   4/28/2019...

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As a child  had a cat,
A big black cat named Smokey.
Since I couldn't say his name,
I simply called hm Pokey.

He was my cat, I loved hm so,
A lovely bg black Persian.
My daddy bought hm just for me.
He thought he was a person.

He was a...

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shrills of a blue jay
chasing squirrels from feeders —
robbing me of sleep


May 10, 2020
for Tania Kitchin's Haiku - Blue Jay Poetry Contest...

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SMOKEY AND THE BLUE JAYS

As a child I had a cat,
A big black cat named Smokey.
Since I couldn't say his name,
I simply called him Pokey.

He was my cat, I loved him so,
A lovely big black Persian.
My daddy bought him just for me.
He thought he was...

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Canada Jays

Four seasons ‘round Canada jays are found,
Perched in tree branches, safe and sound;
Resting after flying throughout the North,
In the Canadian boreal forests.
Heard and not seen unless it’s their intention,
To disturb the silence, making known their presence
By confronting intruders in the area,
With barking shrills, expressing...

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