Best Plover Poems

Piping Plovers run
receding surf yields food
ballet on wet sand...

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Sprinting stick legs carry my midday mission 
Stiff breeze whips sand, removes thin prints
Bringing crammed crab, grabbed in precision 
Urgent payps brief cease brings peace distinct

Assembled nest, scattered pebbles and shells
Ginger plumage scurrier is ever alert mother
Concaves place, away from encroaching swells
Secure dunes' hush is...

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Poems for Poets X
Poems about Poets X



Sinking
by Michael R. Burch

for Virginia Woolf

Weigh me down with stones ...
   fill all the pockets of my gown ...
      I’m going down,
         mad as...

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The crocodile smile is such a pretty sight
as the Egyptian Plover keeps his teeth
pearly white and shiny bright
"Open wide," are words heard from the bird
his dental hygienist who picks and pecks
then eats the meaty spicks and specks
and as the crocodile sheds old choppers
(no tears)
so the...

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