Best Magpies Poems

magpies
bickering raiders
sorrowful untold secrets
line your nests of
thieves...

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Our neighbor Edna is an incessant talker for sure
My husband says squawker, and I think so too
Weird words come out in a blather, somehow threatening
More than a bit of chatter, it is constant and nonsensical.

We call her magpie when we are alone, which is not...

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warble to the sky
a joyous chorus flock shared
joie de vivre...

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  Mellow melodies of magpies in enchanted wood herald spring.

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AUSTRALIAN MAGPIES  

I woke to a cheerful sound at dawning
As warbling of three magpies greet my day.
They're sitting on tree branches this morning
And warble though the skies have turned to grey.

The magpies are dressed in black and white coats
No need of colours to enhance...

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Woke up at four then with each passing train

Been waiting all weekend for Monday again


Saw two magpies but one of them was dead

Is that sorrow or joy for a superstitious head?

 

anxiety and worry is all about me

I’m all on my own yet surrounded by...

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Two magpies 
By Michelle Morris
28/07/2023

I see two for joy
Two magpies in the garden
Enjoying the sunshine
Inspired by the moments

Two as a pair
Love and happiness
Inspiring our joy
Blessings and gladness

Two as a couple
Joined in time and space
We are blessed profoundly
Every single day

© Michelle Morris, 2023

Since time immemorial, it...

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Do magpies communicate with the dead? 
It is not uncommon to see magpies in a cemetery
Silent and calm, watch over the graves,
The flowery tombs and the so dogmatic crosses

I often see them in cemeteries thinking,
As if to speak to those who are underground,
They go on...

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Grandpa took his gun
Out to the field
And I watched as he aimed at the birds
And I asked my father "why?"
And he said "They peck the peaches, they raze the raspberries, they plunder the plums"
And I think, where I a magpie
Instead of a girl with her...

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Through busy April clouds
The shrieks of magpies sound
A rainbow black and white

They hide their finds in highest trees
Making their  finest bridal nest...

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Magpies
By Michelle Morris
16/05/2021

As I go about my human day, typing on a keyboard words and numbers into meaningful use via cyberspace, 
I notice the simplicity of nature despite its complicated interdependencies - 

A pair of magpies visit my garden every day in a sequence of...

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massed magpies
in a black and white city
united in joy




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The Song of Magpies
by Lady Ho
translation by Michael R. Burch

The magpies nest on the Southern hill.
You set your nets on the Northern hill.
The magpies escape, soar free.
What good are your nets?

When magpies fly free, in pairs,
why should they envy phoenixes?
Although I’m a lowly woman,
why should...

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