Best Nesting Poems

the nesting robin

while kneeling in my garden. . .

sowing baby's breath


March 1, 2019 for Tania Kitchin's Spring Haiku Contest...

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nesting birds flutter 
 a birdbath is safe haven…
    tabby cat sleeping
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Kigo: Birds nesting/spring
JM freeman
10/30/2011
For Charles Henderson
Contest Haiku
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two busy blackbirds
gather twigs, moss and dry leaves …
cat sits on the fence

Bird Haiku Poetry Contest

sponsored by Tania Kitchin

03/15/22...

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Small
Joyful  
Laughter
Delicate
Beautiful
Loving
Tender
A salty tear
A hurtful word
Add an encasing layer
Cautious
Observant
Apprehensive
Forgiving
Forgetful
Curious
Loving 
A loud rip
Another piece gone
Add another hard layer
Ignorance
Dumbfounded
Crying
Sadness 
Wounded
Forgiving
Loving
A twinkle is gone
A star falls
Add a fortified layer
Unbreakable
Black
Insignificant
Ugly
Hollowness
Desolation
Resilience
Layer after layer
Wondering where’s the beginning
Of this Russian nesting doll
Built by life...

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You lay in the wooden cot,
a broken sparrow,
Crushed. Bony. Frail.
Hair once plumed gold,
greyed to clumped feathers
like ragged  trampled wings,
strawed out on the dank pillow.
Face once blushed pink plump,
Jolly kind of soft with life,
Sucked to bone. Nose to Beak.
Echoes of the mask it will soon...

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Bluebird nesting box,
built with love. Toils to survive
cold spring nights, unforgiving.

Toiling, foraging
Worms, insects make a nice meal
Insatiable mouths...

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Come here, nest, my little poem,
Rest inside my head
Where vision, thought, and clarity
Blooms the way I’m led.

Come here, nest, my little poem,
Best inside my heart
Where with your sage and tender light
The seeds of sun will start....

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The horrid hollowness of the empty nest,
viewed without a redress, empty nest.

Years of doting, uplifting, caring
bring forth a man of kindness, empty nest.

The sun which rose with his laughter
sets with a mother’s loneliness, empty nest.

Let my heart sing with each memory
of cuddled child breathless, empty...

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November skies bare all
Perched precociously 
Up stark naked branches
The old abandoned nest

Hatchlings of yesteryear
Outgrow familial nest
Leaving warm comfort behind
To spread their wings

Freely roam expanse of sky
Set forth on their adventures
Explore and forge new nests
Procreating the cycle of life



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Submitted on April 15, 2020...

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diligent digging
squirrel’s nesting for Winter
determined breakthrough 
but the squatter’s unwanted
chased out…sealed up crasher’s digs


1/18/2022

*digs - accommodation for living...

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Now the time to roost has come
and bones must lay to rest
we find a place to settle on
to shape our final nest
.
As grasp on what was real evades
our fading earthly sight
we rise above the shadow realms
of lifetime’s final night.

Awakening from mystic dream
returned to spirit’s source
welcomed...

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I don't particularly enjoy this time of year.
It's nesting season over here.
Baby birds fall from their nest out of the trees,
featherless and blind unable to see.
I take all I find back home with me
and attempt to save them hopefully.
I've researched the method and know the...

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Thorn bird, 
build your nest
Among fernwoods
Be fruitful and multiply...

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They move, quick and sure,
In a line, they cross the road
Like short, grey gentlemen

The noise that protests
Screeching vigilantly, violently
Like a relentless cough
Echoes on the edges of fences
That edge the pastures

They savor the ticks and mosquitoes
Lingering a little at the puddle
Caused by a hard rain just...

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hidden nest… feeding

collecting food… not insects

bad summer weather

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