Best Pileated Poems
Ancient Winter
...A Pileated Woodpecker skewers through
The golden mirage of fall trees
Leaves dropping from frosted beginnings
Rush my glance towards his perch
Loud knocking races my blood
Fumbling with my c......
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Categories:
pileated, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Outside
... A redheaded pileated woodpecker hopped up a tree
Barn swallows fly around me
Doves were cooing down in the dale
Other birds joined in, I even heard some quail..
......
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Categories:
pileated, dog, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
My Heart Doesnt Know What It Needs
...trees dilly-O sing.
mellow skies surmise —
they’re not quite blue, white nor gray.
knocking in front and back —
pileated woodpeckers, shockers
with crests, crafty
to home owls and bats,
like......
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Categories:
pileated, bird, imagery, spring, tree,
Form:
Free verse
Netflix, Hulu
...Neftlix, Hulu, autumn elaeagnus
thorns, small hairy buds, twigs hyper-lenticelled
fruits supposedly edible, leaves elongated, oblong
xerophytic but found in wetland
introduced species, some say i......
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Categories:
pileated, dream, fear, february, people,
Form:
Free verse
Rereading
...Rereading the poems of others
and my own. Community across
time and graves. What's left
exceeds in significance
one's last moment. Yet
his last moment must have been
exceedingly important
for ......
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Categories:
pileated, animal, community, grandfather, morning,
Form:
Verse
Undersky Sleeping, Bonekeeping
...In the holy spot
with the sitting rock,
an oak. Out back
shagbark hickory
and maple.
Ants climb the rock.
August, birds
celebrate flowering
weeds, the seeds
of autumn to come.
I am here......
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Categories:
pileated, august, autumn, flower, mountains,
Form:
Free verse
Purposes Incomprehensible and Wonderful As These Purposes
...Imperfect world, purposeless person.
I retired to pursue perfection
learn jazz tunes, woody and herbaceous plants,
read every inch of English literature,
Scientific American and Foreign Affairs......
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Categories:
pileated, bird, blue, day, death,
Form:
Verse
Hip-Notic
...What movement, what visual rhyme and grace ...
I have watched the old willow on my grand-father's farm
Sway in a summer breeze, sweeping the grasses with a soft movement
As sublime as t......
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Categories:
pileated, body, passion, sexy,
Form:
Free verse
Where the Crawdads Sing
...Just past far as you can go,
yonder, where the crawdads sing,
out beyond time’s ebb and flow,
festival is full in swing.
Bullfrog’s on the tympany,
joined by pileated drums.
Katydids join com......
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Categories:
pileated, fantasy, music, nature,
Form:
Quatrain
Early Morning
...Early Morning
I wish to capture in some way,
With words, the ineffable
Images, and sounds of quiet,
In a time without man sounds.
Early morning awakened by
The first glimmer of orange red
......
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Categories:
pileated, morning, spring,
Form:
Free verse
Pileated Woodpecker
...This boy must be in season,
this blaze-headed feather jack
hammering shack up condos
into swooned oaks, sautéing up fire
ants for a seductive nibble in the pulp.
You can hear him all ......
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Categories:
pileated, seasons,
Form:
Free verse
Brown Trout - Salmo Truta
..."Piscator non solum piscatur"
("There is more to fishing than fish.)"
______________________________
Brown trout anglers catch few fishes
and almost always let them go
barbless hooks......
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Categories:
pileated, fish, fishing, nature,
Form:
Free verse
The Pile He Ate
...birds fall hunger-wise...
before
cold winters shortages...
today a woodpecker ate...
such an
overfill it had to lay on the...
feeder for ten minutes till...
its throat
cleared so that it ......
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Categories:
pileated, bird, food, happy,
Form:
Free verse
Mediation
...Mediation
I wish to capture in some way
With words, the ineffable
Images, and sounds of quiet,
In a time without man sounds.
Early morning awakened by
The first glimmer of orange red
As it......
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Categories:
pileated, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Pileated Drums
...
rhythmic staccato
interrupts the morning calm
pileated drums
red crest, pointed beak
penetrate the slumbered fog
now the forest hums
crocuses burst forth
joyfully joining the dan......
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Categories:
pileated, morning, nature,
Form:
Haiku