Song Blackbird Poems

The blackbird wants to sing a song.
What song?
A song of freedom
But its fragile beak is tied.

The blackbird lives on the Island. 
Where the Aubrey's tongue...

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Blackbird singing in a redbud tree,
Why such a sad and mournful ditty?
I like your song, but, oh, tell me
Is it meant to please or pity?

Little...

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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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The scent of decomposing leaves pervades the air,
a ghost-grey mist hangs, lifeless, on the branches; bare
from vehement leaf-stripping winds, awhile passed through,
denuding all; from Ash...

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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 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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In dream lone blackbird sits on telephone line,
pleading, what more do I have to give. 

Wing once beat out a metronome in time..
leaving thoughts lost...

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


           W.A CHOLT.  Copyright...

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Blackbird Haiku

Blackbird sings so sweet
Song Thrush adorns black clothing
Bring joy to the World



Written 25.7.18 for Tania's
Haiku Bird themed contest...

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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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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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Eight (NEW) ways of looking at a blackbird
Inspired by the poem, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, by Wallace Stevens 


I.	
The blackbird tilted its...

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