Best Rufous Poems

rufous bird
hides in the camellia
avoiding raindrops

written to happily announce their colorful return to my feeder- hoping warmer weather will follow soon!...

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The Kookaburra, this terrestrial Kingfisher like bird
With it's onomatopoeic call, laughter in it's world
They inhabit arid savanna's and humid forests so lush
Also suburban to residential,...

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calypso darting
peering through open windows
rufous hummingbird

an old gourd hanging
blowing gently in the breeze
its peach tree abode

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this hummingbird has been hanging around all season, at first...

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OCTOBER PANTOUM


Rufous luster of Autumn on October allures assures romance under azure sky. 
         
 Celtic seasonal...

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For the first time ever,
a Cardinal's nest lay cleverly hidden
in a juncture of two branches
of the red rose climber
on the south wall of our garage.

Over...

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An eagle sits in the cedar,
Another is soaring nearby.
If he hadn't called I'd have missed them.
I just wouldn't look that high.

A rufous towhee is searching
For...

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Somewhere between the Poseidon and Azure
Is his double shaded blue that always allures;
Between the lush and chrome, green hues
That glow in layers of velvet like...

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My Little Sparrow

Oh Little Sparrow
How come you here?
Your rufous neck
Seems so cute
And your white little cheeks
Are too small to hold a seed
And a bushy black...

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Casting a glance past my shoulder as Chopin’s Berceuse opens into the air
            light...

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Show me what you see each day 
Through your sparkling eyes of greens and browns
Do you see the smiles, the tears and frowns
On children's faces...

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March on, April, and may
irises counterpose
raring purples yellow
As gray clouds in sun dance
Gentling storms rain mellow…

March on, April, and may
endearing pinks breezy
move magic carpet rides
In...

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Tender is the night the moon does gently sway,
reflections from your eyes, gives one a taste of
your ways.
Dancing leaves, the headlights ensnare
a rufous finale, as...

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The Missus is angry, Rufous told his wife.
Are you sure? She sounds like that a lot.
Her husband just flew off with the babysitter.
That young thing!...

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He writes, pouring down his words of glory
Disclose the echoes of his wondrous dream
Down into his soul her untold story 
Boundless desire; her tears, her...

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Cindy my infamous old cat,
Often brings me part of a rat.

Sometimes a bird leg she brings.
Really, what can I do with those things?

Now she brought...

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