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Best Roosting Poems

Below are the all-time best Roosting poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of roosting poems written by PoetrySoup members


A Former Great Nations Squandered Wealth I
Swept up into piles; everywhere 
Abouts; in collected heaps all 
Around.              ...

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Categories: roosting, philosophy, senses,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Harbinger Birds of Spring Potd
With the incoming sounds of spring, a resurrection of life,  
the chilliness flees. Quote _ by Poet 



Ready for a new season, Spring birds
Shake...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: roosting, bird, spring,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Night Bird Sings
When sleep deserted me
I crawled out of my bed unseen
To delve into the crevices of the dark
With the curiosity of an explorer
And the near comatose...

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Categories: roosting, fantasy, night, poetess,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member An Emerald, Most Rare
It was glorious ...

A glorious, glowing morn ...
crimson crept up the sky, as if air-brushed ...
little round globs of fair-weather clouds tiptoed on the reach,
(so...

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Categories: roosting, beauty, color, memory, ocean,
Form: Narrative
A Curious Cat Roams At Peace
Evergreen pines 
Evergreen firs,
Yellow moon size star rays shining through,
Nighttime in the forest.

Red cardinals mutter, mourning doves coo
On branches in sleep
Roosting in their wait for...

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Categories: roosting, christmas, imagery,
Form: Imagism



Maundy Thursday
MAUNDY THURSDAY

The Upper Room was hushed that night,
 	As frightened friends supped their last as one.
Shoving back the morrow
	When their leader would be gone.

This is...

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Categories: roosting, death, easter, passion, ,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member A Poet's Dozen - Birds
birds interesting
a collection from nature-
all so beautiful

The Storm Petrel's are small birds that seem to hover,
little sea birds that appear to be walking on the...

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Categories: roosting, bird,
Form: Verse
Premium Member White Crows
Morning ignites a murder of white crows.
roosting in the loft of spruce, maple and oak.
Preening moon and star from death's fertile dream.

Ribbons of sunlight wrapped...

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Categories: roosting, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Maundy Thursday
MAUNDY THURSDAY

The Upper Room was hushed that night,
 	As frightened friends supped their last as one.
Shoving back the morrow
	When their leader would be gone.

This is...

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Categories: roosting, faith, imagery,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Darkness Descends
A spent sun withdraws from a sanguine sky
into the ebony blackness of space.
And birds roosting in trees no longer fly
as a ghost moon rises to...

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Categories: roosting, 12th grade, beautiful, feelings,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member Winter Coat Instrumental
I'm sitting by the river in the centre of Inverness
In a place we call the islands, beauty in capture finesse

It's late into the evening as...

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Categories: roosting, nature, placesriver,
Form: Couplet
Rolling Down My Hill
I stand at the top of my hill,
Spread my arms and fall and roll,
Over pavement, yellowing grass,
Into balls of trees of autumn.

Jasper, topaz, ruby, and...

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Categories: roosting, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Winter Wonderland Acrostic
White is the landscape as far as I can see.
Ice is the brook that is in close proximity.
Nights are much longer than the days.
Toward the...

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Categories: roosting, seasons, time,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Old Jake the Critter Lover-A Parody
Old Jake lived a mile or so below the falls.
He wasn’t  a hermit, or any other sect or sort.
He was just an old man;...

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Categories: roosting, parody,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Musings of a Wise Old Owl
Mused the owl roosting on a pine tree shoot,



   "My colleagues think I'm not very astute,



       But...

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Categories: roosting, bird, humorous,
Form: Limerick

Book: Shattered Sighs