Best Terns Poems

Brisk beach winds spray
Specks of sand in the air
Perched in regal pose patiently
A squadron of Royal Terns
Take their posts in the 
Bird formation on whisking sands

Orange beaks point in unison
Cutting through flowing air
Breezes bristling crown feathers
Gently patting grey and white bodies
As they waft while at
Standing...

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From boat's mass thrown up
Wings fondling light and wonder
The fish shudders awe

I caught in splendour
Net my eyes in white of wings
And sea frightened thawed

So water rippled
The sea in sunshine trembling
Against departure

They turned, flashed in dive
The sun made coronet bright
On feathers waving

True there was a cry
In...

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Come fly with me
said she
One good tern
deserves
another
And did I so yearn
with her to share 
the air

Up we soared
and down we roared
between the sea's deep blue
and sky's paler hue
Between the waves’ white spray
and clouds high away

As speeding arrows, we traced
two trails across foam crests
calling as we...

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a flock of terns
face headlong into the wind --
compliant wind vanes...

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