Bird watching
...Do you think of other women when we make love
No, no, and definitely no
I do
Well, I’m pleased for him and you, and really pleased if it’s her and you.
Strange how you mentioned Mary in y...
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Categories:
bird watcher, humor, women,
Form: Free verse
EVOLUTION OF A BIRDWATCHER
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BIRD WATCHERS!
I’m sure you’ve sen them out in nature…with their binoculars glued to their eyes….
pointing…waving…jumping up and down as if they’re constantly surprised!
They often dress alik...
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Categories:
bird watcher, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Today
...I watch it grow from a plant into a tree, I watch it grow to rescue you and me, I water it with my sweat and nurture it with my breath and in the early morning I absorb its substance in my knee.
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Categories:
bird watcher, beauty, change, courage, emotions,
Form: Narrative
Santa Was a Bird Watcher
...Santa was a bird watcher
Until they turned his own ideas on him
Now they are flying in to investigate
To ask him questions.
Robins, wrens, sparrows,
Cardinals, blue jay, goldfinch.
Questions ...
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Categories:
bird watcher, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Free verse
Jumping For Joy
...For years I was a trained gymnast, and I'd competed in the Olympics,
Before my leg was injured in a car accident, among fate's cruel tricks.
I had photographs and memories, of my glory days on th...
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Categories:
bird watcher, career, fantasy, happiness, hope,
Form: Couplet
Tweets and Peeps In Treetops
...my ears trembled
striving to understand
so I could capture the tweets and peeps
but there has been no alphabet that can
for the faerie creatures who fly from the trees
have no mouths, so do not ...
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Categories:
bird watcher, bird,
Form: Free verse
Haiku - Seasoning
...crows collecting twigs
peppering the neighbourhood -
salt stained bird watcher
03/15/2019
Writing Challenge 2, Marc...
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Categories:
bird watcher, bird, spring,
Form: Haiku
Four Trees Toppling Over the Dirty River
...I escaped to a quite place to meditate
But as soon as I got there an old man in a red cap
with a wretched look on his face invaded my quiet space
I have noticed him perpetually prowling around...
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Categories:
bird watcher, bible, change, creation, destiny,
Form: Narrative
Nothing Happens Here
...Nothing happens here
In the next village, a man was trapped under his tractor
and in another village, a man fell out of an oak tree
No one asked what he was doing there but his
trousers’ zip wa...
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Categories:
bird watcher, april, arabic,
Form: Bio
I Am
...Symptoms are not who I am
Disease is not my name
Medication is not your fix-it-up
And treatments are not your game
My body is not your fieldwork
This machine that lets me live
My mind is not ...
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Categories:
bird watcher, body, death, eulogy, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
The White-Throated Needletail
...The White-throated Needletail
The white-throated needletail
(World’s fastest bird)
Was recently spotted
And quick spread the word
Only eight other sightings
In one seventy years
On the Isle of Harri...
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Categories:
bird watcher, bird, wind,
Form: Rhyme
Bird Watching
...I watched a fragile bird today
painted black and white and gray
Prancing all about me
as if to dance and play.
He hopped around the grassy grounds
in hopes of breakfast beetles
To give him streng...
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Categories:
bird watcher, beauty, nature, me, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Dear Brain (Abridged)
...My dear brain, forgive me, won't you?
I've filled you with alcohol, time and again
My heart's silence drowning the head's tin can
Once and for all I am delivered to you
Forgive me, won't you?
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Categories:
bird watcher, healthme,
Form: Rhyme
Forgive Me, Brain
...Dear Brain,
My dear brain, forgive me, won't you?
I've filled you with alcohol, time and again
My heart's silence drowning the head's tin can
Once and for all I am delivered to you
Forgive me,...
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Categories:
bird watcher, healthme,
Form: Rhyme