Best Stork Poems
There was a hungry saddle-billed stork,
That went for a wading walk,
With his long stout bill
He caught fish at will,
It sure made the other birds gawk.
Categories:
stork, bird, children,
Form:
Limerick
I'll be a poet.
Words will flow from heart to pad.
I'll write through times good
And, with God's hand, through times bad.
I'll have a ball...I know it!
by Cherie Durbin
Categories:
stork, on writing and words
Form:
Tanka
I flew above a brood of brats,
like fighting, wailing alley cats;
defamed, I stood there like a dork:
their mother blamed them on a stork!
For Andrea’s I am a stork contest
Birth, unspoken communication: stork
Categories:
stork, birth,
Form:
Rhyme
I came to this world as Flinthead and departed as Openbill
I was a Wall Street Stork Broker
Categories:
stork, death,
Form:
Epitaph
A new babe on the way,
Does she arrive today?
The stork is on standby,
Is she coming down the slide?
A star in heaven's berth,
Winging her way to Earth,
Now an atomic cluster,
Has she got a dust buster?
Her future unplanned,
Soon in Earthlings' band,
When is she coming down the slide?
Right now, the stork is on standby.
Categories:
stork, baby, beautiful, blessing, child,
Form:
Free verse
half in, half out ,frog held between her beak,
wily old stork ate frogs like they were steak!
he fought back hard, slimy fellow,
he changed colour green to yellow,
She spat him out, yuk! yuk!! said “what a cheek!!”
written 08/05/2021
Quitters never win
Margarita Lillico sponsored
limerick 10,10,8,8,10
rhyme 1,2,5 lines based on picture provided
Categories:
stork, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Limerick
We had 16 crews that were assigned to the raid,
Of Japan, ‘cos of Pearl Harbour where we got laid;
We prepared on Egland Field for the aircraft carrier,
And didn’t believe a B-25 could take off the warrior.
We speculated that we headed for Japan, their deserve,
And the second day we were on the carrier, did serve,
We began to have meetings and be drilled to attack,
To implement the Doolittle Raid to get them back.
Was I scared? Well no, I was ready for it, was waiting,
And that taking off morning was a benefit according,
But when we took off, I immediately let off and said,
“My God, we did it, we did it,” and it was a fine bed.
The B-25’s were truly amazing, popping into the air,
And we just knew they could do it, fly off a carrier,
And the navigator sent us on our way to the target,
A Japanese chemical factory, big and was a magnet.
Our assignment was to fly 50 miles out to the sea,
Then parallel to the Japanese mainland, then definitely,
South and then fly west, which would take much gas,
So we just had to hope for a strong wind our way to pass.
It did, and I consider myself as a lucky guy, got out,
‘Cos other pilots didn’t, only got ten miles inland, were out,
They were captured and never came back to tell their story,
Whilst I seem to have admiration and to get all the glory.
I just did my best, the best that I possibly could,
Those guys are just as much of a hero, understood,
I graduated with many from a US flying school,
To do with major league in England, a death pool.
Categories:
stork, appreciation, conflict, freedom, hero,
Form:
Heroic Couplet
Hey Frank!
Don’tcha keep
Servin’ up
Them storks
Yeah, Frank, you…
Stop it!
Ya can’t cook
Stork
Shut her down
Board her up
Set ‘em free
Sorry Frank!
Categories:
stork, food,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
When Eve was searching for a rib
The Devil led her to a crib
Where Cain and Able
Hatched a stork fable
Creating the very first fib
Categories:
stork, bible,
Form:
Limerick
Badger Daddy Dork got the bill from the stork.
His temper hit the top of his head with a pow.
Badger Mommy unwrapped the baby and said wow!
Pay the stork whatever he wants, she said to Dork.
You are so easy! Dork said to his smitten wife.
It is a girl this time, she said, what a great life.
The baby looked at Dork and said “hi daddy!”
He said “She is as cute as any badger could be!
Categories:
stork, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
B I R D
H I D E
L A K E
S I D E
Categories:
stork, nature, seasons
Form:
Shape
I was standing next to an African swamp the other day
When the wing span of a dynamo spread a shadow my way
It covered my body length, and I was lying down flat.
I said to my husband “What do you think of that?”
“It’s a shoebill stork,” he informed me with a hush.
Don’t excite him, because he will come out of the brush.
The shoebill was at least five foot tall, standing on his feet.
Which intimidated me, as I know shoe bills love to eat.
What do they consume? I asked my husband, worried.
He whispered “lungfish,” and his voice sounded hurried.
The blue gray shoebill began to stare me down right away.
I thought we were both goners on that horrible day!
Categories:
stork, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Quatrain
Somewhere in the air
Came a physical challenge for a wedded pair
“You on the ground
Commuting into town
Pick up the pace
Soon you will be pushing a basket with your case
That fact must be faced
Time to hold your beloved honey
Losing any time is not funny
Not many minutes to spare
I want to make you aware”
Looking up to the sky
With a wondering eye
Giving a sigh
Needing to find more from this cry
Only blue
Was shining true
Little pink added too
Continuing his walk
Being harassed by an invisible stalk
“I am telling you
It is not just the two
Of you
Remember that romantic vacation tour
Gazing to the moon on the shore
And the midnight lighted pool
When it was late seemed really cool
As the pedestrian followed his daily path
Getting sick hearing this eerie wrath
Reaching the destination
On time disregarding the mysterious voice’s presentation
Reported to the office and the bloody work
Sitting down outside was the image of a stork
‘Congratulations Dad’ was the message he saw
From his wife who went into contractions down at the mall
Shopping inside the little one’s boutique
Rushed by ambulance when situation was ready to peak
It was then the window cleaner looked inside
Making the sure the businessman was full with parental pride
Cigars were distributed
Acknowledgments attributed
Congrats made the rounds
And the new papa was happy his lifelong bride just dropped a couple hundred pounds
Categories:
stork, baby, birth, child, dad,
Form:
Rhyme
tempestuous light
everlasting affection
a vital lifeblood...
Categories:
stork, blessing, care,
Form:
Haiku
The stork has past us by, time and time again we have cried. A baby girl we want and need, oh please give us a princess little Sarah Lee.
A call we received a baby girl is born, can this be our princess little Sarah Lee? Rush to the hospital we will go, looking hall after hall were can she be?
We found our princess little Sarah Lee, wrapped in a pink blanket was she. She looks so regal laying asleep, we must buy her a crown to make her complete.
Date Written: 4/12/2020
Sarah Poetry Contest=Poetry Contest Deadline: Sunday, May 17, 2020 Sponsored by: Julia Ward
Categories:
stork, baby, cry, girl, love,
Form:
Free verse