Unsung Poets And Their Poems
...the llama scribbled a Limerick
the robin wrote a Rhyme
the bittern jotted a Lanterne
the toad penned an Ode
the albatross’ Alliteration
the hippo’s Haiku
the panther’s Pantoum
the cuckoo’s...
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Categories:
bittern, animal, bird, fun, funny,
Form: Light Verse
How art thou fallen to destroy the land
...??Isaiah 14:12-23 KJVAAE??
[12] How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! [13] For thou hast said in thin...
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Categories:
bittern, faith,
Form: Free verse
Bittern
... a faint booming note
deep in the everglades marsh ~
a bird seldom seen
it's distinctive call
like a pebble drop in stream ~
elusive b...
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Categories:
bittern, bird, nature, sound,
Form: Haiku
Unsure the Shore
...Grim fog, I praise the shelter of your drear,
the sundown ghost morose not grandiose,
I walk alone - but, no -- with my despair;
a bittern bids a bitter adiós.
The breakers so in agony they gna...
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Categories:
bittern, 8th grade, beach, bereavement,
Form: Sonnet
The Last Master of War
...Not a true Choka...but uses a 5,7,7,5,7,7 format
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Chill, steaming vapour;
Silence over pale water;
Faded, thin wisps...
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Categories:
bittern, fate, life, loneliness, longing,
Form: Choka
Find Yourself Free
...Stop and look, stop and listen
Nature’s here around us
Natures’ birds sing sweet melodies
The scent of wild flowers in the meadows
The bluebells so delicate under the trees
Beauty of ligh...
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Categories:
bittern, beauty, bird, creation, flower,
Form: Free verse
Lance-Lot
...Lance-Lot
by Michael R. Burch
Preposterous bird!
Inelegant! Absurd!
Until the great & mighty heron
brandishes his fearsome sword.
Keywords/Tags: Nature, Animal, Bird, Birds, Heron, Herons...
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Categories:
bittern, animal, bird, fish, fishing,
Form: Couplet
Jim
...JIM
Oh Jim why die so young
We know your time had not come
So many songs yet to be written
Many of us had been bittern
And just waiting to hear your voice
Giving us all not much choice
F...
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Categories:
bittern, emotions, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Bird Observers Guide
...Sitting on the back porch on a balmy summers morn
and listening to the music of the dawn
wondering who sang the song and where the bird is at;
reaching for my copy, of ‘What bird is that?’
But ...
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Categories:
bittern, bird, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Bittern Mantra
...I am the reed
Beak to the sky
Swaying in the breeze
I am the reed
I don't want to die
Don't see me please
I am the reed
There's nothing here
But swaying grass
I am the reed
My...
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Categories:
bittern, anxiety, bird, fear,
Form: Personification
Anthology of Haiku
... Canadian geese
black cheeked... brown... white tipped feathers
stormy ocean waves
barnacle geese
hibernate as barnacles
for some... once a thought
starlings murmurate
whispers o...
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Categories:
bittern, bird, nature,
Form: Haiku
03-29-18 a Haiku Anthology
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the light of all life
sol...illuminating all
false statement
false statement
sol...illuminating all
the light of all life
distant horizons
the edge of the world
gua...
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Categories:
bittern, nature,
Form: Haiku
Masquerade Is Calling Again
...You…my friend…my only friend
Broken, broken again
Torn to shreds by a different end
Cast away into a distant land
To meditate, to become strong willed
To pick up the scattered fragments of hope ...
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Categories:
bittern, nonsense,
Form: Free verse
The Tale of the Night Part 1
...The window the moon looks like an eye,
And the wolves are howling behind the wall
The outside world is cruel,
And someone in the darkness coming for me...
In the darkness she heard sobs,
What,...
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Categories:
bittern, love,
Form: Lyric
Haiku Bittern
...A bittern boomed
the vast marsh swallowed it~
mother calling me....
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Categories:
bittern, mother,
Form: Haiku
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