Best Songbird Poems

Mission of the Yellow Songbird

A long highway road stretched its legs before me,
In a place where tumble weeds were conceived,
December evening chasing daylight back to morning
Dusk robed in faded colors starving out the sunshine
Miles put themselves between me and home
With thickets of brier brambles cradled...

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I glisten

in the shining wind. . .

oh, songbird, fly me away


April 19, 2017 
N/A in a haiku contest...

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Dear little songbird,
With your beak of gold;
Wearing untidy feathers,
Sing a song sweetly told.
The wings of my songbird,
Seek blue fields above;
Where my feathered songster,
Serenades his love.
With wings opened wide,
He soars in the skies;
His darting and swooping,
Gives delight to my eyes.
He sings in the twilight,
Where my soul...

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robin's melody
rings true from the Hawthorn tree~
sweet sound among thorns....

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Melodies traversing upon 
     Winds of the desert painting
Misplaced beauty of Saguaro’s 
     Dancing with dust devil’s
Sagebrush songs echoing off
    Mountainous mirage of valley
Floors endlessly stretching past
     Horizon bleeding red...

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I listened to his sweet refrain,

How I loved his melody.

To my delight he sang again,

From the branches of a tree.

I imagined, that he'd sang for me....

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Foregoing the fool
A tattered heart slept
In a reticule.
Two drawstrings pulled tight
To obscure the light.

Emotions fraught
With second thought
Perfected a
Silent reply.

Nightingales
With clipped wings
Rarely sing.

Free your
Soul and

Fly!



Dedicated to my wonderfully terrific Father: 
02/14/2003
Happy Valentines Day, Dad.
Miss and will always love you, Johnny....

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Songbird, dost thou recall our verse,
lyrics that fueled adolescent hearts 
afire?
Painting smiles during ever the 
worse,
with soothing voice impervious to 
tire.
Thus I listened with mine ears 
compelled free,
sans shield against thine alluring 
voice.
I recall the tune which rang of we...
Thoust sang for me, with fervor,...

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You are such a songbird ..but so out of tune...

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The songbird
Free from being caged 
Her melody is beautiful
Because she is no longer afraid

She doesn't sing for your amusement
The songbird does not sing for fame
Oh, she sings for love
Because it can not be tamed

Born wild
Songbirds of all types and colors

Fathers
Brothers
Sisters
Mothers

Beauty deserves to be set free,...

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I am young but old 
I watch youths fall in love and ...
my heart swells with joy-
and hurt
for I know I shall never feel such feelings again.

From under the depths I watch as the world passes before me-
My time had stopped.
My voice lost in my...

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Happy as a Songbird


days of hard rain fell
yellow tinged silence followed
birds rejoiced in song



....couple weeks ago, it rained hard for days here in Minnesota,
movement ceased for a few days...then life renewed!...

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Songbird in my front yard
feeding on seed I've thrown
I can see you
because I have become 
part of the silence...

Each day I learn from you
as the fish learn from the sea
the Sparrow and the Blue Jay
learn from the wide open sky..

Mockingbird I am lonely today
chant your...

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Hark! What beautiful singing I hear!
Songbird in a tree so near.
How can you sing there in the dark?
Are you a robin or a meadowlark?

Sweet little songbird with no home,
Sweetly, sweetly, sing your song.
Sing it, sing it in the dawn,
Morning’s on the way.

Foolish little songbird,
It’s dark...

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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 sweet

Awoke. Washed. Dressed . Prepared to greet
But the voice got swallowed by the noise of the street

Oh son: let's go...

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