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Best Kestrel Poems

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Kestrel Falcon


    She is quite the Mistress of the air, synchronize swimming where Eagles dare-stare, no need for landing batons or clearance, she...

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Categories: kestrel, art,
Form: Rhyme



Kestrel
Kestrel
Focused falcon
Honed huntress hovering
Adjusts; stoops; lands; dispatches
Raptorial...

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Categories: kestrel, nature,
Form: Cinquain
The Swallow and the Kestrel
He is a boy with orange hair
And more freckles than pride.
He is a boy with his eyes on his feet-
He glows the light that others...

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Categories: kestrel, conflict, flying,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Valentino
Temptation pulls us all into sin with gravity force
Wading in with human desires sweet sugar coating gloss
 
Strengths are nurtured and grown from our creator's...

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Categories: kestrel, beautiful, beauty, emotions, faith,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member I Remember
Someone once saying to me
I always wished to meet some like you
To you one writes poetry from the heart and soul
opening up from my very...

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Categories: kestrel, angel, beautiful, beauty, feelings,
Form: Free verse



Hawk's Eyes
in the bright light of day you appeared...
a gilded angel with falcon wings,
you rose up out of the desert sands 
and your gentle beauty struck...

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Categories: kestrel, angst, lost love, loveme,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Amidst Highland Glens
"without a care in the world the Grouse freely roam"

A quiet hush abounds amidst the scenic Highland Glens
Whilst saltire skies above silhouette a Golden Eagle...

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Categories: kestrel, animals, nature
Form: Free verse
A Soldier's Elegy
A kestrel dips into an updraft
thinking he knows the world
tranquility gurgles 
through silent valleys
over mountains
around the earth
refracted 
through the wind

The creature soars ever higher
in great...

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Categories: kestrel, adventure, confusion, corruption, courage,
Form: Elegy
Zoom
Painted kestrel, ruddy hawk
Booted eagle, stoop and stalk

Pigeon here and pigeon gone
Blood and feathers stain the dawn

Prairie falcon, osprey, owl
Diurnal hunts, nightly prowls

Raptor  in...

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Categories: kestrel, bird, flying, sky, tribute,
Form: Couplet
Natures Nest
How beautiful the sounds, sights of nature

In the distance alarm call of a cuckoo,

beautiful sound of summer Tanager

Blackbirds hopping around getting in a stew,

Acrobatics of...

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© Roy Pett  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: kestrel, appreciation, bird, nature, sound,
Form: Rhyme
Patient Death
High
above
rich wetland
a lone kestrel .

Patient death beating,
fixed in  measureless blue.

Elegant white swans swim through
rare grasses greeting migrating
geese sliding in with the setting sun.

Darkness falls,...

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Categories: kestrel, life, nature,
Form: Etheree
Blue Iris
Blue Iris, 
Grimoire gondolas steal unbound human yawns,
Each Charon poised with sallow spear along the River:
Austere laughter of headless boughs 
sipping grave-scented spiritual kisses.

Gruel to...

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Categories: kestrel, anger, anxiety, beauty, dream,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Birds of Bliss
She’s my woodpecker, she’s my humming bird, she’s my goat sucker, my fly catcher, my skylark, my swallow, my blue jay, my sandpiper, my blackbird,...

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Categories: kestrel, bird, love, romance, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Letter To Ellen Johnson - Sirleaf
I rather watch a kestrel to see
Her swoop and swirl
The skies invisible maze
To feed the inhabitants of her nest
Her milk of gratitude

Morning begins with a...

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Categories: kestrel, black african american, history,
Form: Free verse
Ghazal, Light
Night  is my  world   with  the moon  as  my guiding  light  
I  search   in  the black  shadows   for  your gliding  light 

Day  is your  world   with  the...

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Categories: kestrel, feelings, imagination, romance,
Form: Ghazal

Book: Shattered Sighs