I love things in nature that flock and herd
yet as a birdwatcher my lens gets blurred.
I see double at the beach
with my telescopic reach
spyin’ the tanned large breasted booby bird!
Written: March 2014
Categories:
birdwatcher, humorous,
Form: Limerick
avid birdwatcher takes usual spot.
casts cracker crumbs to pigeons;
in wondrous company.
Date written: 12/31/2021
Categories:
birdwatcher, bird, food, imagery, woman,
Form: Kimo
Birdwatcher
This passionate, keen Ornithologist,
Is an interest, I profoundly pursue.
With the upmost of dedication,
To Black Tern & Long Billed Curlew.
Never a Twitcher, or just an obsession,
Binoculars on hand to observe.
Redstart & Greenfinch, also Reed Bunting,
Come into focus on a birdlife reserve.
Warblers & Wagtails, singing all day,
Sounding so sweet in the garden.
Robin & Chiffchaff scurry around,
That’s my bug meal, if you pardon.
Black Tailed Godwit & Purple Sandpiper,
Great Skuas & Dunlin share low tide.
Petrels & Fulmars, big Herring Seagull,
All I can name from a secluded bird hide
Categories:
birdwatcher, beach, bird, garden, imagery,
Form: Light Verse
quintain
From my wheel chair facing their veranda
I could not distinguish the girl next door.
She looked somewhat like my niece, Miranda,
except for her hair halfway to the floor.
(Miranda always kept her hair shorter.)
I turned the music down so I could hear
the conversation that was taking place.
Although I consider myself a seer
who reads expressions on a person’s face,
I discerned the voice of a reporter -
well-known correspondent on radio.
She posed some questions, most of which I missed.
Once she turned her head towards me, just so
and I caught one, clearly getting her gist.
“Is your neighbor watching us from her deck?”
Taking the hint, I retreated inside,
unaware of how obvious I’d been.
It was then I saw what she had descried.
Eavesdropping had not caused her chagrin,
‘twas the field glasses hanging ‘round my neck.
Categories:
birdwatcher, 11th grade, people, places,
Form: Rhyme