Best Kestrels Poems
Where the Ocean Meets the Mountain...You, Mariana—deepest trench of my knowing
I call you by name not to possess it
but because it is the only prayer
I have ever known how to say
You are the sea—each wave not an argume......
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Categories:
kestrels, assonance, love, metaphor, mountains,
Form:
Lyric
My Dog, Benbow...Somewhere beside the myrtle rose blooming white
By nutgrass overgrown, a palm tree sways in soft moonlight
Like an angel from the throne, and somewhere there
In your long forgotten bed sleep your ......
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Categories:
kestrels, animalsdog, dog, time,
Form:
Verse
The Green Man...He speaks for the uprooted.
A man of sorts, a twiggy Buddha.
He who interprets
the conferences of frogs,
the unpublished works
of kestrels and voles.
He’s an advocate for the underbelly
o......
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Categories:
kestrels, poetry,
Form:
Blank verse
The Green Man...He speaks for the uprooted.
A man of sorts, a twiggy Buddha.
He who interprets
the conferences of frogs,
the unpublished works
of kestrels and voles.
He’s an advocate for the underbelly
of a......
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Categories:
kestrels, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
I Heard the Owl Call My Name...I heard the owl call my name,
like a backbeat in a child's voice,
etched in shadows of a father's grave,
lonely echoes on a frosted night...
at dawn I'll be immortal again,
renewed by a work......
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Categories:
kestrels, dream, war, , cute,
Form:
Free verse
Oil Spill...Note this poem was written some time ago but I was sick and deleted my site. I have been patiently reposting my poems since 9 October 2000.
On November 13, 2002. The Prestige, one of twelve ta......
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Categories:
kestrels, abuse, pollution,
Form:
Free verse
My Space...A very special place, beautiful, magical and withdrawn,
It's happy and content, never sad and forlorn,
I imagine to portray it's perfection will be tough,
No matter how hard I try I can't seem to ......
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Categories:
kestrels, happiness,
Form:
Free verse
Angels and Demons - the Finale Act 2....Destination
A historical place
But these Gettysburg landings
A place of race
The signals our droids
To the Kestrels they return
For their cargo on board
To them will be, infinitive burn
......
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Categories:
kestrels, fantasy
Form:
Rhyme
Kingdom Come...Keepers of the secret
Knowledge, powerful men
Kneel before the altar
Knowing their prayers are
Kisses on God’s lips. New
Kingdoms come and go like
Kestrels in search of food.......
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Categories:
kestrels, allegory, heaven, religion,
Form:
Free verse
Life Giving Lake...Life-giving blue lake filled almost to rim
Brings beauty and delight to ones full of dreams
Gives plentiful to migrated Canadian geese
Offers cozy homes to duck families
Meditating Cranes s......
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Categories:
kestrels, appreciation, beauty, earth, happiness,
Form:
Rhyme
Flaccid Fleet...Gluggy margarine marine grips keels
Apex sun spreads sickly circle of lard
Plugged lungs, gust momentum marred
Strait elongates co-ordinate, pace killed
Glidin......
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Categories:
kestrels, beach, columbus day, independence
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
The Return of Earth To the Devout...Squadron assembled
Trojans and droids
Three sisters their target
Null to void
Atmosphere entered
Red to grey glow
As we near earths terrain
Red rivers flow
Cities on fire
Civilisation ......
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Categories:
kestrels, death, devotion, faith, fantasyearth,
Form:
Rhyme
Motionless...where
the egrets
perch
where
the petrels
nest
the
kestrels
screech
wrens
peep
above
the creek
which
wends
then ends
where
the speck......
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Categories:
kestrels, nature,
Form:
Verse
The Green Man...He speaks for the uprooted.
A man of sorts, a twiggy Buddha.
He who interprets
the conferences of frogs,
the unpublished works
of kestrels and voles.
He’s an advocate for the underbelly
of a......
Continue reading...
Categories:
kestrels, poetry,
Form:
Free verse