Cheerbird“Chirpy-chirpy-chirp-chirp-chirp,”
catches my ear, wakes me up.
Yes, I’ve been
awake,
but not like this
for many days.
“Chirp-chirp-chirp-chirp…”
this conversation
goes on. Makes me smile.
Best part of my day?
My best self,
my innermost
has been tapped
…sappy
…happy
…maybe
today will be a hoot
I hope this is the root
of the whole
healing I need.
Yesterday,
Dad in aphasia
no worries, lasts but a moment,
but my leg’s been a drag...
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Categories:
bird, health, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Fly Away, Bird
The swish of heaven glimpsed
beneath in girl's Winter
eyes — this solo bird, she's
large seen by blue. She
beats me, with her song —
memory streaks the air
childhood, womanhood
with her song, she beats
on me.
I also have wings,
heartbeats. Beneath
my ruin, feathers.
We chase feathers —
The bird say
Winter's shadow where
branches once spoke
her tongue —
she never lifts off...
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Categories:
angst, bird, flying, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Cranebeak wedged in white noise
twigs of legs snow-plant
plumage in the air
body borne invisible
muse contemplates wholesome bird...
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Categories:
bird,
Form: Tanka
Deprived of your Love ContestWhat is the shore without the sea
Aimlessly wondering watery dreams
Deferred desolate depressed empty
Is how I am without love in me
That one true love for which one is blind
Without it there is darkness blackest of times
Is like a blue bird without a heart song
No white wind of romance to carry it on
Without love there is nothing...
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Categories:
bird, blue, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
DreamThere was a pigeon
He fly one day
Above my eyes
Fly up high
So high
Almost
Meet
The
Sky....
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Categories:
bird, dream, flying, sky,
Form: Other
Toss a SmidgenToss a smidgen
To a pigeon
And you know he’ll eat it,
Though once fed
A crumb of bread,
You can’t get him to beat it.
Still, what’s worse
And worth a curse
Are seagulls if you’re snacking,
For I’ve found
When food’s around,
They sometimes try attacking.
My advice –
You’ll pay the price
By tempting those with feathers,
For they know
Where humans go,
There’s food in any weathers.
...
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Categories:
bird,
Form: Rhyme
BIRDS OF A DIFFERENT FEATHERBirds Of A Different Feather
(Feather Pen...Ink. Tanka)
She's like that hen,
peacocking her bouncy tail;
proudly strutting it:
Both strutting the same purpose;
but different roosters sought:-
...
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Categories:
bird, allegory,
Form: Tanka
Fly, Fly AwayFly, fly away…
When I feel stuck, I just want to
fly, fly away,
like a caged bird finding a way
to escape being trapped, to coo,
chatter that all it want to do …
Fly, fly away!
...
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Categories:
bird, flying, me,
Form: Rhyme
Deprived Of Your Love
I can’t rid of the bags under my eyes
The crowfeet despise, all were lies,
Conjured was an illusion of you
Throughout my groping confusion
evasive, flimsy
A-m-o-r-p-h-i-c, innuendos
I was subjected to your derision
dissing me relentlessly
deriding my appearance,
disparaging my intellect
as I stumbled and fell into the abyss
Mocking doesn’t suit my countenance
My lips desert dry, thirsty, parched
An amazon...
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Categories:
bird, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
songbirds
songbirds in flight
over waves of colour
roadside bluebells
AP: Honorable Mention 2022
Posted on PS on April 27, 2025...
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Categories:
appreciation, bird, flower, nature,
Form: Haiku
R-U-N-N-E-R
Breezy,
break away free bird,
as free as easy as the wind
wanderess go onward
~ through life~
with an incessant need
to find solace
and meaning
back in god’s grace
It’s penetrating places you roam
and journeyed from
Free bird, without
a home, without your flock
Once wings spread across
golden honey horizons
then held still on a dock
Cries o’er the retched waves
drenched in its...
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Categories:
bird, freedom, life,
Form: Free verse
Freedom is a bird with broken wings in the modern world, trapped in invisible cages of indifferenceFreedom is a bird with broken wings in the modern world, trapped in invisible cages of indifference,
Reflecting destiny as a silent shadow, the immutable aspects of existence embrace us with cold arms,
Death, an artist of limits, carves the boundaries of our lives with the chisel of relentless time,
Each human being becomes a prisoner in their...
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Categories:
bird, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Flash of brightness
A flash of light like a bulb, came into sight
Shining outside my window, with a flash
The evolving view was bright and beautiful
I stood still and watched with happiness
The Goldfinch took flight, flapping to my heartbeat
Heidi Sands
4/26/25
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Categories:
beautiful, bird, color,
Form: Free verse
feral pigeons
Categories:
bird, peace, symbolism,
Form: Senryu
Nature stirs
Categories:
bird, nature, world,
Form: Haiku
Specific Types of Bird Poems
Definition | What is Bird in Poetry?