Best Passerine Poems

a lark song tickles
 notes of robins and wrens pique~
          the starling teasing




2/23/2021

For Spring Birds Poetry Contest 
Sponsored by Constance La France...

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perched on purple coneflower, red-winged blackbird darkens nest

5/31/2018

*darkens - makes less clear...

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In the tree by my house, 
Lived, a black rumped flameback, with its spouse.
Their oscine songs and undulating flight were my daily delight.

Oh! Today it was flicking the rear-view mirror of my car,
May be, it found another song bird inside.
Jabbing and drilling to play or...

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