A Spectral Owl
...Cloaked in a fitting grey suit and bow tie,
She floats like paper kites across meadows.
From a hollow in a tree, her eyes pry~
Her loud hoot startles nearby sleeping crows.
The spectral owl, wi...
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Categories:
birder, adventure, dark, life, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
She’s not GONE SHE'S JUST NOT HERE Grandma LUE is in the HEAVENLIES
...Elegy
“You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”
-Rumi
Soil so dust to dust another ...
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Categories:
birder, analogy, appreciation, bereavement, death,
Form: Elegy
Birding
...A birder in search of a bird
Just slipped on a buffalo turd
Sharp as a tack
Flat on his back
He learned not to follow the herd!...
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Categories:
birder, bird,
Form: Limerick
Identity
...A bird enthusiast’s a birder;
Guess that means that I’m a worder!...
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Categories:
birder, words,
Form: Couplet
Birds Drop
...Dropping over human heads birds fly
Drops from beautiful beaks grow trees
Birds drops manure for trees ever free
Hang on trees singing to see a birder be
Architect of environment birds serve we
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Categories:
birder, bird, blessing, creation, environment,
Form: Blank verse
Flush With Thrush
...So it is my theory
there is nothing more cheery;
that first vision bleary,
that first feathered dearie...
Ooh, look! One so leery...
It's a precious little Veery!
Mind the birder stan...
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Categories:
birder, appreciation, bird, spring,
Form: Monorhyme
Bull Whipped Emotions
...Rip ticy tac schmitty fiddy fiddy smack
Fliddy skity zat vroom lackity crack
getty getty boom wheter zoom wack
Birder loom werter veroom lurdder
Doom whippty plaque
The sound of a b...
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Categories:
birder, boyfriend, break up, hurt,
Form: I do not know?
Seven Birders
...Seven birders in a huff
Trying to tell if it's brown or buff
The bird's feathers are all afluff
Seven birders in a hufff
Six birders in a van
Scouring, searching all the land
For a bird so small and...
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Categories:
birder, animals, nature, bird, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Move and Lose the Greater Truth
...Pack and Lose the Greater Truth
We’re moving all right,
to my beloved state of
Connecticut. Just where
I always fancied myself.
in a sweet cottage with
skylights letting heaven in.
Our home sits r...
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Categories:
birder, death, home, home, truth,
Form: Free verse