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Best Magpie Poems

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Premium Member Ekphrasis On the Magpie By Monet
A lonesome magpie~
perching on a forlorn wooden stairs
on a snowcapped mountain side
spells serenity in the day light.

The barn house reflects
the pale lavender shadows~
a soft blend...

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© Jcb Brul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: magpie, appreciation, art,
Form: Ekphrasis



The Magpie and the Butterfly, a Terzanelle
I look out upon a lonely Magpie,
I feel a great stirring deep in my heart,
As he gracefully glides across the sky.

He’s always searching for his...

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Categories: magpie, butterfly, love, marriage, passion,
Form: Terzanelle
Premium Member The Maid, the Magpie and the Mirror
Gazing, at its own reflection is the Magpie.
A magic bird, a mystical creature, with a soul
and the power to see things, the power of scrying.
It...

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Categories: magpie, adventure, allegory, bird, death,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member Magpie
Magpie   


Magpie, this jewel of a bird with songs that flicker like a candle.
These notes, the enchantment of a thousand mornings.
we cannot capture...

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Categories: magpie, beautiful, bird, song,
Form: Free verse
Magpie
I have a friend who is, to the best of my knowledge, a magpie.
All shiny, all sparkles of metal and glass are placed in my...

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Categories: magpie, friendship, me,
Form: Free verse



Amid the Jagged Shadows
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"Amid the jagged shadows of mossy leafless boughs; "
                ...

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Categories: magpie, dark, fear,
Form: Free verse
The Art of Loving You
Monet


Come with me, let us rekindle love –
walk with me over bridges aglow
while rivers magically glisten below.
If you hold my hand, 
perhaps, we might spy...

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Categories: magpie, art, city, light, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Little Girl Barefooted and Grass Stain Knees
skies of rainbow blue as ocean moves
girl’s sassy swirls of soft tangled hair,
where pearls would dare clasp its curls

glow in her eyes special gentle blue
waves...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: magpie, adventure, childhood, girl,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Joy Through Her Loving Ways
Rainbow skies, ocean current withdrew.
Girl's pert swirls, soft unbound hair, where pearls
shelled mollusk would dare to clasp its curls.
Radiance eyes special gentle blue.

Three feet exhilarating...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: magpie, day, dream, girl,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member The Wolf - Part 3
...... Part 3 ......

The old wolf creeps, the old wolf leaps
on prey he’s been a’ trackin’ –
a deer adorned with branchin’ horns
is torn by beasts...

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Categories: magpie, nature, old,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rare Cooking This Fine Morn
Rare Cooking This Fine Morn

To have deep-thoughts, dreams a poet slowly eats
Or spiced casseroles of ink-piggy feats?
Meals written on yellow paper to enjoy.
Chinese fried rice...

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Categories: magpie, appreciation, art, creation, food,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Fallen
“The Fallen”



Remote,
he sees himself 
in the reflection of cold close 
yet distant shop windows, 
his final journey along the 
Hard Time Road
walking alone, 
unforgiven, no...

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Categories: magpie, family, freedom, friendship, god,
Form: Free verse
Rainy Morning
Rain upon my window
An early morning treat
Water pooling by the door
Then running down the street

Magpie sitting in the tree
Looking wet and cold
Wishing for a juicy...

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Categories: magpie, rain,
Form: I do not know?
It Can'T Be Art
It can’t be art 

Spun in a windstorm of caustic insisting
Plastered like mud on the walls of Pompeii
Frescos of joy before charcoal was misting
Writing in...

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Categories: magpie, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member On Any One Day
(An Addingham Poem)

Clashes of old tainted galvanised buckets
against the stone flags daily ring out across the manor farm yard,
profanity given proficiently if the swine catches...

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Categories: magpie, farm,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs