Best Red Tailed Hawk Poems

He was mighty as could be venturing down by the sea,
revered as the king soaring over his golden throne-
He was respected yet felt neglected and...

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Perched, waiting, still
He swoops with swift precision
Red tail fanned in flight
His cry announcing intent
See the beauty in this flight......

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Said the Chipmunk to the Hawk

Said scared, little, tail-striped chipmunk to red-tailed hawk,
“I am hidden over there where you will not find me.”

Said hawk in...

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I gaze up at the pellucid sky
a red tailed hawk is flying high;
it scans for prey, which soon may die ...
rabbits run for your life...

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A bouquet of canaries came calling.
A yellow rose quartette.
They expected nothing, just sweetly sang. 
Preened the pangs of life away.
They were just looking for a...

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The faithful sun rose in the eastern sky 
Slowly over the swamp and the mist on the water
Bringing the breeze that whispers through the cattails 
And...

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The sun is up, the sun is yellow, shining bright.
Reflection of chrome, pointed nowhere in particular.
Where there should be peace, it’s high noon.
A breakdown in...

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Afternoons the sky shuts down around the swamp's warning tapes
propped up with restoration piping and dirt leak fencing.
We’re fleeing toward the wild, seeking the names...

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Long before the white man came 
to the Black Hills of South Dokota,
in a teepee made of buffalo skin
lived a young Sioux warrior called Akecheta;
he...

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a red-tailed hawk

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Feather to feather on a branch, this early winter morning,
Are they planning outings for the day or of grave dangers warning?

A predator comes swooping by,...

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Native American Translations

Cherokee Travelers' Blessing I
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

I will extract the thorns from your feet.
For yet a little while, we will walk...

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Haikuesque No. 22


red tailed hawk
suspended
suddenly
swoops setting sun

~~~~~

Haikuesque No. 23

one legged,
heron meditates
gulps
river moon
rising...

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A journey into inner space, via Meditation .

In a relaxed state, of beauty, meditative reverie,
visions of you, upon crystal petals, came to me.
In this beautiful...

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Dawn debuted stealthily,
as a breeze rustling through cat-tails;
But time, toted in its attache case,
the not-looked for;
Soon circumstances of the day
were screeching like a Red Tailed...

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