Best Starling Poems

I am part of a display team
we don't practice, we all just know
to twist and turn together,
as we put on our aerobatic show.

This display is called a murmuration
the visual delight, showing no fear.
The oohs and aahs of the watchers
as the birds shows you autumn is...

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Plucked from Shakespeare 
and plopped in Central Park,
Sturnus vulgaris, the mimic,
conquered New York.

It made it there,
You know it made it everywhere;

The continental stage stolen.

And here on my fence amid this tragedy
To be   blessed with a modicum of bliss;

The sparkling spring songster
with his treasured...

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Little starling,

   perched in your woody heights,

   kneading thy wet wings,

   and gloating with song -----

Then flying off to some far shore:

   Is it envy that I feel?...

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Starling Murmuration 

 
'Neath Nimbus Dark 

Eerie sings 

Nature's Acrobats

Million wings 

 

Splendour reigns 

Cascades crash

Aeriel Ballet 

Swooping splash 

 

Mesmerising movement 

Semaphore Correlation 

Phenomenon splendid 

Starling Murmuration 

 

thank you...

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Sweetest starling, stand astounding.
Sleeping soundly, seasons passing,
Stay the startling sounds. Outstanding
Music sung, silence surpassing.

Sweetest starling, sight is sparkling.
Saturn stunned and Venus spiteful!
Scarify the sinful darklings,
Stillness of your style insightful.

Sweetest starling, swift as sunlight.
Sprawling, spreading luminousness.
Scraping stratosphere and space height,
Sponsoring salubriousness.

Sweetest starling, swaying sadness.
Stripèd sails, they...

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I felt your heartbeat
A flight of startled starlings
It was then I knew
You wanted me too....

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One day a Starling did speak with his brother
He twittering and whistled ten minutes or more
On and on about preening and bees, 
About sly cats that hide in the trees

How he lost brown bread by the blue porch 
'twas a small piece he said, seriously,...

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Starling heart so true
pure as the glistening ice waters that pour 
over the rocks of wild and down the willow limbs in the grave yard
we must reawaken my love
let go of the detritus
be done with the dark pain of our loss
the limbs of the pine...

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gleaming feathers shine
whilst the songbird sweetly sings -
a melodic tune 


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Songbird haiku Poetry Contest
Starling
8/18/2021...

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Parked at the lake where we surely were't strangers
A Starling momma thought her babies were in danger
She flew at my head
Pecking away to my dread
Till I ran in terror trying to save my old brainer...

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Let it rain over me.
Let it wash away the misery.
Give a chance to smile to glow.
Don't stop the happiness river's flow.
I need you my friend.
I just want to be by your side.
In your arms I want to die.
Just don't let this drought,
Finish the field of...

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Twisting, turning, swooping, SWIRLING
Starlings just before dusk
Forms  patterned cloud ILLUSION
Coming together as single

Thousand minds as one
Act in an instant
Who trains them all?
Who leads them all?

RUSTIC charm of birding
Brings rare joy sighting
SILENCE seems to EMANATE
In ambience of forest

SYNTHETIC life in city
Never helps to BLOSSOM
TIMELESS calm...

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a coat of stars 
on a shiny night you 
wear
and thrive in #'s (almost)
everywhere
Mozart taught you to sing
everything
recite poetry
and greet those
who stumbled in
you are precious
to me
yet so hated
they patent your name
for poison
and rage 
Starlicide
now
half of what you were
your murmurations
still
smoke the sky
just not here 
this year
my...

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susurration shifts
jet cumuli passerines~
starlings flight sculpture
...

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Squeaks shrieks and whistling chirps
mixed with mimicry, colourful
spotted speckled iridescent darlings

Pixilated torturous waves at dusk
mesmerising murmurations escaping the day 
starlings, self-pursued sardines of the sky  
flowing contorting distorting, fly....

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