DAILY GRATITUDE RUMI AND SINGING BIRDS
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Today I’m grateful for the poet Rumi’s understanding of singing birds
from the largest raven…to the smallest bobolink…
I want to sing like the birds sing…he said
Never worrying about who is he...
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Categories:
bobolink, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Stranded In Bittercold Without Food Or Drink
...Stranded in bittercold without food or drink...
Though the following
twittering scenario quite absurd,
methought diehard adherents of mine
(intimation also quite far-fetched),
some unnamed rea...
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Categories:
bobolink, absence, adventure, animal, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Storytime
...The bed is still in disarray.
A faint erotic scent exudes
From the crumpled pillow.
Was it only yesterday
This page unfolded?
Empty now this gold and decorated room
Except for paper roses.
A...
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Categories:
bobolink, romance, sad love,
Form: Free verse
Stranded Courtesy Bittercold Without Food Or Drink
...Stranded courtesy bittercold without food or drink
Dire straits necessitated
yours truly to bethink
outside the box (literally outdoors
of squarish structured nested dwelling),
where blinding ...
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Categories:
bobolink, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Nature
...Nature" is what we see—
The Hill—the Afternoon—
Squirrel—Eclipse—the Bumble bee—
Nay—Nature is Heaven—
Nature is what we hear—
The Bobolink—the Sea—
Thunder—the Cricket—
Nay—Nature is H...
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Categories:
bobolink, 9th grade, absence,
Form: Free verse
Boundless Joy
...A Bobolink came whistling strong
Proclaiming boundless joy
Vicariously my soul was filled
What a golden ploy
Deliberately he sauntered near
My heart he touched supreme
All other stimuli c...
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Categories:
bobolink, change,
Form: Rhyme
Dolichonyx Oryzivorus
...Dolichonyx Oryzivorus
spiritus lapsae
Spring has come.
Redwings in marshes,
declaring ownership of
reeds!
Rice Birds!
Dolichonyx Oryzivorus!
Bobolinks!
Redwing cousins,
hopping in t...
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Categories:
bobolink, joy,
Form: Blank verse
Birds of Bliss
...She’s my woodpecker, she’s my humming bird, she’s my goat sucker, my fly catcher, my skylark, my swallow, my blue jay, my sandpiper, my blackbird, she my kestrel, my petrel, my quail, she’s my nighti...
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Categories:
bobolink, bird, love, romance, sensual,
Form: Free verse
My Love Lies Bleeding (Part Ii)
...I turn and run down to the wet places where fawns remedy their
thirst from the waterbrooks. Panting, I fall to my knees and gather buttercups,
crowsfoots, hellebore and peonies and grind the cr...
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Categories:
bobolink, death, devotion, hope, life,
Form: Free verse