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Best Petrels Poems

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Premium Member Dozing Petrels
Dozing petrels with soft plumage 
drunken with sage,
don't bite on bark   
when voices don't hark!


Earlier you soared over a plain
greeting a swain
with eyes...

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Categories: petrels, nature, seasons,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Guise of Blue Jay Skies
F  l  y  i  n  g

a sailing tailwind
in cerulean streams
through creamsicle colored beams -
are wings reflective of turquoise truth 
and...

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Categories: petrels, autumn, bird, blue, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member So Peaceful, So Cold Is This Winter Afternoon
The American eagles left their warm nests
before snow fell on the evergreen pines and spruces,
so did the ravens, grackles and petrels...
hidden among the white mountains,...

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Categories: petrels, animals, fear, nature, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Birdwatcher
Birdwatcher

This passionate, keen Ornithologist, 
Is an interest, I profoundly pursue. 
With the upmost of dedication, 
To Black Tern & Long Billed Curlew. 
 
Never a...

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© Kevin Shaw  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: petrels, beach, bird, garden, imagery,
Form: Light Verse
Billy the Penguin Goes To the Moon
There was a penguin named Billy
Who had dreams which all the others found silly.
Poor Billy caused a lot of tension
Because there were things he needed...

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Categories: petrels, adventure, change, courage, destiny,
Form: Rhyme



Baccalieu Episode
BACCALIEU   EPISODE

Portuguese  named  it when they found
Bacalhau  -  meaning  codfish island.  They knew
Its  essence  -...

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Categories: petrels, seahome, boat, home,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member Mariners
Mariners in our wanderlust,
We sail beyond the horizon’s curve.
Fearful, we dare the briny deep
Out of faith in the dreams we serve.

Rough-hewn by years of knots...

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Categories: petrels, adventure, culture, deep, dream,
Form: Free verse
Storm Clouds
STORM    CLOUDS  
    

Storm clouds gathering again from the Pacific
Over this  graveyard and its winged totems,
Cedar stories...

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Categories: petrels, history, sound, sound,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
The Captive Angel
THE SNOW and coarse wind both plunge down over oceans
Unbound and unmeasured by obstinate sailors
Who drift while confronting ungrappled emotions
Like obdurate petrels and stoical whalers....

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Categories: petrels, angel, death, life, mountains,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member May Your Only Wish Be...
May your only wish be...
rosy sunsets with chimes
that welcome the smiles
of those seeking serenity! 


May your day never end,
and if it does: be gratefully glad;
look...

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Categories: petrels, happiness, inspirational, love, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Flower's Gift
Scarlet sage' path...
feet rambling about the hill
of a quite woodland
with Carolina willows
and southern magnolias.


Lanky short-leaf pines
shade the milk-pea verdant shrubs;
petrels watch the swift,
mottled squirrels climb...

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Categories: petrels, garden, nature, sea, seasons,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member The Returning Soldiers
I've felt Daren's absence for years,
a most unforgettable memory: 
someone who was very close to me.
The long roaring ships cut 
through the bubbling and whizzing...

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Categories: petrels, absence, fear, feelings, friend,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Motionless
where
  the egrets
           perch
where
   the petrels 
     ...

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Categories: petrels, nature,
Form: Verse
We Are the Stardust Men
We Are The Stardust Men
Collaboration by Stark Hunter and D.Lee
Dedicated to T.S. Eliot

We are the stardust men, 
the wayward stardust catching men,
dalliances of mind and...

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Categories: petrels, august,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We Are the Stardust Men
We Are The Stardust Men

Dedicated to T.S. Eliot

We are the stardust men, 
the wayward stardust catching men,
dalliances of mind and shadow occur openly,
As we have...

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Categories: petrels, angst,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs