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Birdbaths Poems

birds

...birds ~many species
flood to the bird feeders....
frozen birdbaths crack...

Categories: birdbaths, bird,
Form: Haiku

Cattywampus

...Cattywampus

In a world where things get messy and everything is in disarray.

One can become easily distracted and overwhelmed throughout the day.

Cattywampus is what some may describe these ...

Categories: birdbaths, cute, imagination,
Form: Rhyme

contrariety

...contrariety
brown thrasher takes morning bath.... 
doves, hummers, fly in  
small and large birdbaths offer 
water consolation prize...

Categories: birdbaths, bird,
Form: Tanka

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Seeing Through a Dirty Glass

...Genesis: 1:20


The poet cleaned the kitchen window over the sink 
       At first glance
            No birds were seen there to feed or drink water

Soon through cleaned window
     Bir...

Categories: birdbaths, bird, creation, faith,
Form: Suzette Prime

My Garden

...My garden is rustic wild
  far from any formal style
as Mother Nature shows
  anything grows.
Too many weeds but they flower too
  watering watering those summer blues
Pretty vines tall and gre...

Categories: birdbaths, garden,
Form: Rhyme

Puppy Dog Eyes

...I worked at a boisterous animal shelter, which wasn't too far from my home,
That filled days with barks, meows and singing, like green wilderness zones.

I loved working with the various animals, ...

Categories: birdbaths, cute love, dog, fantasy,
Form: Couplet

Confused and Colorblinded

...I come up from down the mountain
Where the sky is always green
And the trees are a showy pink
Up toward the valley down there.
Often I seldom wonder how
Cat fishes can fly so high
While the bir...

Categories: birdbaths, confusion, fun, humor, word
Form: Free verse

Spring Awakening

...The first monarch butterfly,
Just flitted by.
Lazily drifting through stark spring sunlight,
Seeking any blooms to alight.

Daffodils cheerily glow before front fence,
Oval ridged petals in bre...

Categories: birdbaths, daffodils, flower, garden, rose,
Form: Sonnet

Easter Sonnet

...Yellow and purple crocus clumps now easy to find,
Tulip and daffodil bunches not far behind.
Before my front fence
Their greenery is getting dense.

Today I plant some bulbs I forgot
To add in ...

Categories: birdbaths, life, spring,
Form: Sonnet

Sacrifice

...Surrendering frost
Frees spring from the ice
Daybreak sees what shadows lost
Flower-colored footpaths
Crystal thawing birdbaths
Winter's sacrifice

3/30/18...

Categories: birdbaths, nature, seasons, spring, winter,
Form: Rhyme

I Hear You Singing

...I Hear You Singing

I hear you singing outside my window,
in the beautiful rose gardens.
I see you, my angel, with arms
pointed, stretched out to my heart,
I hear you singing,
joining in those...

Categories: birdbaths, beautiful, deep, for her,
Form: Romanticism

Raingod's Song

...Down and down and down they fall,
into rivers and oceans and seas,
into eyes looking up,
and onto uncaring heads,
making streams gurgle again,
overflowing suburban birdbaths,
filling a little b...

Categories: birdbaths, devotion, life, nature,
Form: Free verse