Nature Blackbird Poems

all ears early morn'
notes clear from yonder coppice ~
blackbird plays it's flute



A Hiku Premier Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand
Date written: 12/26/2022...

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** Shopping Center Blackbird **

He, rising in defense of the others,
Presenting himself, to all with ears 
To hear and before all eyes,
The black, flapping silhouette...

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As deep stillness fills the evening air
Whispering leaves stirred by wind’s caress
The lowering sun gilds your auburn hair
The garden quietening now before night’s rest
 
Whispering...

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midday a blackbird
feeding on a fat ball
look a butterfly

a large cabbage white
will it find a partner
blackbird eating fat

bluetit checking out
a bird box mid-summer
ravenous starlings

woodpigeons on...

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Blackbird sings shrill at night, before day's dawn, 
not now drowned by traffic's rumble sound, 
nor returning early morning flight from Costa's Benidorm 
to Heathrow's...

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Blackbird, blackbird, where have you gone?
Here the limbs you lately danced upon,
In sunset orange, in sunset red,
Now the grapevine says, "Blackbird is dead."

Disbelieving owl cries,...

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Blackbird is dead.
Yes.  That is what I said.
The woods are still.  The sun is red.
Cherries near his little head.

Dark is coming.  Nanette...

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I thought my little mate the blackbird
was being bullied by his flock
maybe pressured to renounce our friendship
his little yellow nose looked painfully pecked
his tail short...

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The little blackbird 
Greets me 
With his early morning song, 
That sweet uplifting voice 
Herald of the glorious  new day. 


   ...

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In the wink the suns rays turn black to silver
In molten precision 
He leaps; hopping
A mystic dance around his meal
Cloaked in glistening pitch
The whisper of...

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Does the blackbird 
Know or care
Who listens to its song. 


           W.A CHOLT.  Copyright...

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REFLECTION
I have often found respite on woodland walks. I listen, look, take every image as a point of view. On reflection, I think you do...

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haikia
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another night
torrential rain fills my butt
summer drought respite
-
a blackbird bathing
another overcast day
like Trump dense widespread
-
midges mosquitoes
larvae live food for the carp
land fauna struggles
-
dogwood tree in...

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haikai
******
the buddleia
a diurnal kingdom...
butterfly courts

a coronation
the orb brightest of orange...
painted lady crowned

bees flowerflies wasps
most grateful to their host...
the gardener

nocturnal bats moths
hedgehogs if lucky a fox...
a...

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Red-winged Blackbird

Look! There in the bulrushes,
Perched at an angle
To the reed,
Is the Red-winged Blackbird,
Keeping a close watch
In his territory.

How do I know it’s a “he”?...

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