Beautiful Blackbird Poems

Birds do ballet out there on the grass.
Gulls have come in from the sea.
Blackbirds are always here, and so are crows,
with jackdaws, too, and magpies.
A...

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Black magic woman.  Wetback seal out on a limb.  Custody battle worse than the raven itself.  Bye Bye blackbird to Beethoven's symphony....

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Sweet \rains new fall, sunlit from Heaven like the first dewfall on the first grass.
Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden sprung in completeness...

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One beautiful girl, one thousand faces
Anthrax of the tongue your deadly poison 
A wake o'broken hearts, o'broken glass I run 
Because I have seen her...

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The sound of a clear Blackbird call
Echoed through the trees and over the fields making me stop and fall 

Upon my knees his song followed...

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My father was a musician, with a beautiful tenor voice. As we seven siblings witnessed his coffin being lowered into that cold earth, a blackbird...

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beautiful blackbird
chirruping the sweetest songs
morning has broken




Poem inspired by this wonderful Beatles song sung in Scottish Gaelic by Julie Fowlis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MzetQfKwbE

05~20~17...

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Blackbird

Atop a pine
of perfect symmetry-
a blackbird
where a star should be.

Suzanne Delaney...

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Redwinged blackbird
speaking to his friend
across from him in
the next tree.

Answering him in such
sweet tones, so beautiful
are they, what colors
covers them over.

It thrills my heart
standing between...

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