Best Kingfisher Poems

I sat down by the river bank

And watched the water flow,

The rapids effervescing

Meanders running slow,

Then past the corner of my eye

A flash of colour sped,

The kingfisher in his splendour

Hunts the river bed.








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His beauty is frozen into one crystalline moment
    like a sudden, brief breath… now here… now gone
         a hunter, a kingfisher, is now descending
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A flash of colour, fast in flight
Oh kingfisher, what joy you incite
This walk on just a simple day
Attempt to shed layers of grey
You are here with orange and blue
My mood is switched to different hue
I dragged my feet, weighted by woes
So many troubles sought to...

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"Look around and see how birds and animals disclose the secrets of self survival and display how their bodies are streamlined to excel in their art"- By Poet


In the twisting tangle of the mangrove
Where eye can’t see beyond leaves
Sits a kingfisher, very alert,
Without the smallest...

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Hazed mist of morning

kingfisher iridescent ~

sticklebacks beware....

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"The Kingfisher" 

Easters
fast escape us
like every 
Christmas 
comes and goes
like a Graduation
where the parent
is excluded
and the lost 
prodigious progeny
eventually 
makes their quest
for an elusive
Holy Grail
buried under shale
or burnt ashes 
floating on air, where,
the breeze pushes back
remnants onto your face, 
into your eyes, the 
windows open,...

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With acrobatic locomotion 
hovering high above the ocean
the kingfisher hangs ready in the sky
to pounce upon his potential prey
waiting just below the waves
by releasing all his thrust 
into a dive. 

Splashing through the salty blue
foamy surface matter
catching what he came to find
as schools of moonfish...

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Along a shady mangrove through glens of green,
I romp around, the air teasing my  curly hair;
And in a dash , a tiny fowl  softly rattles life’s movements:
Harkening, harkening as its emerald crown bops
Much like the wave of rippled ponds…  and I
gaze at...

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Kingfisher
Bejewelled bird
Beneath the bridge
Emeralds and sapphires in
Flight...

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A mom kingfisher
Tried to catch a fish from pond
But dropped it at last!...

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Ins Wasser tauchend
Ein Eisvogel im schnellen Sturz
Fische seid wachsam

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Diving into the water
A kingfisher in a rapid fall 
Fish be vigilant

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Buceando en el agua
Un martín pescador en rápida caída
Peces tened cuidado...

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From a close distance
Watching the prey’s every move
The kingfisher dives!...

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The Kingfisher. 

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Blue dulcet, spread out and new
soaring high across a glidden sky
entranced by dire drips of green
singing out another moonlit lullaby

A kingfisher of sorts, so honest and true
wings dipped in search of a sullen you
reaching out to where oceans walk
hearts wait, and gentle breezes talk

Finding her...

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loud whistles at night
a kingfisher on the prowl~
river fish are still

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