Best Osprey Poems

Yellowstone Osprey
dwells in a rock cathedral
sacred in her flight
administers sacraments
to her watchers far below
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Wide wings with dark fingery tips
Fan tail of duplicate feathers
From beneath: a small white bird, wearing a glamorous white-grey-brown coat
A black moon sits in the middle of staring round yellow eyes
It descends – gliding down towards the still lake 
Its claws are moved in front,...

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gliding high on wing
    he surveys still water -
    osprey swoops for kill...

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The majestic osprey swooped down for a trout.
My husband could only shake his fist and shout!
The poor osprey was startled and fled,
But not before dropping the trout on his head!...

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Wolf sneaks up on finch. Grabs her in his 
canines. Osprey avenges finch. Snatches a 
hare from the glade. You fool, wolf howls, 
that hare meant nothing to me. Osprey 
swallows last bit of meat, says, Wasn’t that 
your dinner for tomorrow? Obviously, she 
was...

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the soaring osprey...
optimistic... spots its prey
a hungry pike strikes...

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Inspired

by

Tom Cunningham...

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an osprey swoops down
     plunges talons into creek...
flies up with small fish



Date written: 03/31/2021...

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OSPREY

On skies, you glared predator-proud talons and beak curved so
sharp as narrow-vision> focusing on doubling plenty to millions...

Prey abounded, you soared, till rivers faded to an unseen creep 
richly sipping of bounties seeping DDT, while in your high tower
eagles hawked tainted by death unaccounted, until...

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Port wing folds
Steep spiral toward the fiery water below
Fish dart in all directions
She springs upward faster than light
Into the blinding sun

She circles the brilliant scene
One mind
One muscle
Tail and wings tucked
She stops

Necessity become pleasure
This is evolution
Her dark eyes pierce the water below
Bending the scene to her...

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I ventured out one day to bird watch in the woods
I saw a new path to take near the tree where I stood
I walked for several miles and could smell fragrant flowers
Not sure how far I have gone but I’ve walked for hours

I could smell...

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Yellow orbs regard us
from a gray anvil head as still as stone.
It’s a broken wing rescue.
We keep releasing it, but it comes back.
 
The ranger looks bemused,
the caged raptor swivels its focus
as if reading sounds.
We took him to a lake 50 miles away,
by evening he...

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Katie Osprey looked up from the ground 
And she knew this was no way to end a night on the town 
“Why did you dump me onto the Garden floor” 
Which made her four-legged love come back from the in-gate door

You see she was a...

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In a turning acre
the high dark silhouette
of a river-hawk.

Wings sharply-etched,
now it dips, and light reveals
each fine feather
as a clear signature.

I looked and saw
the carving flame of its life
branded, and stamped indelible.
A bolt of breath, a hawkish tinder
clearly reflected on the mirror-mere.

And if
the life of this...

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An osprey circles
Hoping I will find a fish for him
A beaver slaps its tail
Yodels to its young
Turtles lounge in the sun
As Swans and Geese negotiate
A doe and fawn cautiously 
Observe my passing
A blue Heron appears
Undisturbed by my presence
Soft breezes tickle the lily pads
As the Dragonflies...

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