Best Shrike Poems

A fat scorpion crawls towards the snake
And the shrike bird is watching from afar
To pounce on both of them
At an amazing speed
So that both of...

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Drink the Namibia Countryside 

Namibia a West African country, on the Atlantic coast
Namibia’s beauty is wonderfully surreal and alluring,
With endless savannah and bushland 
With most...

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I researched the earth's endangered species list and this is what I found.
There's everything on the list from A to Z - rare species just...

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A Poem for the Grey Shrike written on Earth Day 2016

At sunrise while asleep
I was called by a bird tweet
Like a childhood song
So sharp so...

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PREDATOR 

an empty squirrel hole
a chickadee takes refuge
shrike circles the tree

Kim Rodrigues © 2017...

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Angifi Dladla

BAYEDE    

Bayede , Son of man, Bayede!
You who outsmart the invisible God of our ancestors,
You who perfect the creations of the...

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1/30/17


Shrike, planes, kites and satellites
In flight

Above pike, mice, parasites
And all other types of life

Atop the highest heights

Down in the deepest depths out of sight


Thinking twice
Just...

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betwixt the circuitous cocoon of rose hips wrestles a world of unfathomable infamy 
induced by light and shadow murmur influences ridicules scent.

conscripted into nature's loggerhead...

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Across the limpid and serene river, the oasis of the Wild West pioneers,
there are ivory and charcoal peaks waiting for mountaineers
to discover as they rest...

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lark spreads wings at dawn

sun folds reticent clouds –

shrike strikes in pursuit


foxglove spreads soft seeds

hedge shelters nature’s will –

dusk bears fear of growth


stars shine midnight...

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"Clapper Rail, Condor, 

Loggerhead Shrike and a lost,  

Whooping Crane, rarer..."

"Stop!" "Did you make the chess team?"

"No, because I am too short."...

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Pastoral Quilt.

A pastoral quilt
Of varied greens
And russet tawny browns
Surveyed  by adoring eye
On verge of a hill
High above he ground
The provaling wind 
Reddens my cheeks
With...

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stabbed onto a thorn
a shrike holds a prey in place
     now that's gotta hurt




Birds or Bees Haiku Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Tania...

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Morountodun,
this is the place you'll find me
like the prey of a shrike
choked through by your thorny words
When the chase after Omo Ogun with your heart
Failed...

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The Mast

Raised on the rock of Golgotha,
	For all eyes to see,
Sinners hung like lizards 
	stuck on a tree.
	
What song for its prey
	Will the Grey Shrike...

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