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Best Murmuration Poems

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Premium Member Murmuration of Starlings High
Murmuration of starlings high. I’m high!
Low stars twinkling with wings. The trumpet’s call!
As winds of war, incline, in warm wind sigh,
the flock, a shock, sans...

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Categories: murmuration, bird,
Form: Sonnet



Murmuration
Murmuration the bird watchers shout
Time to look up and scan about
What you will see will amaze your eyes
Looks like a moving cloud of unbelievable size

It’s...

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Categories: murmuration, beauty, nature, bird, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Murmuration
The cold season is coming round
Flocks of birds are homeward bound.

They are swirling, turning, wheeling
They invade the evening sky
Changing shape and mesmerizing
Safe in numbers; rustling...

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Categories: murmuration, bird,
Form: Verse
Starling Murmuration
Starling Murmuration 

 
'Neath Nimbus Dark 

Eerie sings 

Nature's Acrobats

Million wings 

 

Splendour reigns 

Cascades crash

Aeriel Ballet 

Swooping splash 

 

Mesmerising movement 

Semaphore Correlation 

Phenomenon...

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Categories: murmuration, adventure, animal, beautiful, bird,
Form: Rhyme
A Former Great Nations Squandered Wealth I
Swept up into piles; everywhere 
Abouts; in collected heaps all 
Around.              ...

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Categories: murmuration, philosophy, senses,
Form: Rhyme



I Am a Starling
I am part of a display team
we don't practice, we all just know
to twist and turn together,
as we put on our aerobatic show.

This display is...

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Categories: murmuration, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Backwaters of My Mind
Soulful secrets and sorrowful sighs
silently stoke smoldering embers
of inspiration; into full flame.

A murmuration of fledgling words
rise on poetic wings; to digest
the very essence of the...

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Categories: murmuration, imagery, metaphor, poetry, write,
Form: Blank verse
A Great Commotion
The ambience was changing
At the fading of the light.
I could feel a cool embrace,
The coming of the night.

In the sky, a great commotion
Countless starlings did...

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© Gary Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: murmuration, bird, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Captive of Circumstance
Your thought-balloons are filled with wild and magical freedom ~

until madness seizes your think tank 
trapping your ceaselessly chirping ideas 
within the teeth of its...

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Categories: murmuration, angst, pain, psychological,
Form: Free verse
A Gaelic Song
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			A Gealic Song

Gneiss. 
	Ancient.
Vying with Earth herself for the Crown of Age.

In the Hebrides
Lie the Stones of Calanais
Stubborn chthonic deities of a common past
Rising up...

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Categories: murmuration, hope, romantic love, travel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Before
Before the day turned into night,
a scarlet sun inked clouds of white.
And tinted the sky with red light;
a cotton candy pink delight.

Before the birds lose...

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Categories: murmuration, beautiful, bird, change, image,
Form: Quatorzain
Premium Member The Dilettante Diaries: Avian Notes On the Sensate Slip Stream : the Silent War In 3 Acts: Pt1
“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”



The Dilettante Diaries: Avian Notes on the Sensate Slip...

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Categories: murmuration, bible, bird, evil, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Clowder of Cats and a Murder of Crows
For those avid crossword groupies of which I are one,
I'm offering free of charge vital data to add to your fun.

So you're stuck on 15-down...

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Categories: murmuration, animal, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Apocrypha of Familiars
“The Apocrypha of Familiars” 

Wings hover 
light luminescent
revelling sprites dark pearls
Corvidae shades
of a family 

highly functioning
dysfunctional plural
morphing unobserved
perceived non-unique 
spiralling into shape

more black and grey
than...

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Categories: murmuration, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Starry Night
STARRY NIGHT

Conditions perfect on that starry night
With hunters' moon illuminating land
They crossed the coast, a ribbon gleaming white
That peaceful scene no threat to their command

In...

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Categories: murmuration, history, imagery, irony, night,
Form: Lyric

Book: Shattered Sighs