War Bird Poems

Steeped in mysterious magic
fearlessly they go
an eerily mischievous bird
you’re never far from a crow

Mystical messenger of the occult
blackest black obsidian plume
baneful omen of death they...

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Atomic Canary
Angels seed
The death bell tolls to the masses
Putin ill be your dog
Netanyaho  ill be your dog
I love this land
This is where I want...

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Only the dead have seen the end of the war. - George Santayana

Even when I sit at my window,
Watching birds peck the sunflower seeds,
Feeling blessed...

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      smoky-gray... frightened

   songbird... on my windowpane...

      overhead... bombs roar......

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Young Lena wandering under a covered sky~

Alone I'm walking not far from my destroyed home.
It's nearly Christmas where I live, but Santa Claus won't be...

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Thanksgiving gobbledygook

The following anecdote baste
upon overactive imagination of mine
in sync with being married
and monogamously living socially chaste
life as a scrupulous anchorite,
whose weather beaten corporeal flesh
plus...

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He soars above the heat,
High above, sun’s right hand man,
Watching the mewling amateurs underneath.

His sight instills fear,
Though too high to steal a glance,
Where he navigates,...

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woeful wanting world wages war,
wait, woodland wakens, wondrous wind instruments,
wafting whimsically,
wood nymphs waltz,
whooping cranes whish wherever,
woodpeckers woolgathering,
woebegone withers,
worldwide peace...

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Where do birds go when war trumpets blow?
Do they weave thick twigs into fragile nests...
or preen away angst- preparing for death.

Do they believe it's just...

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Lorca Translations III

Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) was a Spanish poet, playwright and theater director. He was assassinated by Nationalist forces at the beginning of the...

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______ The Shameless Bird, perched high with glee,
Barks at the tree, as bold as can be.
I offered food for its family's delight,
Yet it barks at...

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Mountain laurel perfume wafted in the soft breeze.
Myriads of flittering birds sang in the trees.
At peace on our cabin porch with feet on the rail...

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A ripple of fear disturbed the birds, sounds of war exploding on earth.

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19th February 2023

A Ripple To Me 2 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by:...

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a song-bird built a nest 
right above the grave of 
a world-war fighter pilot

-- Souvenirs of Silence, Soman Gouda...

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I wonder if Wright
ever thought himself wrong,

before making an actual 
flight? 

I mean, pigeons heckling
him, from the tin roof's ledge (Oh yea! They
do laugh, a...

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