Lost Cardinal Poems

In the stillness of a cool, spring morning,
A cardinal’s heart is heavy – he’s heartbroken.
Softly calling for the lover he is mourning.

Thumps noisily against the...

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Light snow hushes the drab, winter sky
as she places a small white rose upon
the gravestone of her innocent one
lost in the early bloom of her...

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My fingers crossed slowly over the old book
as I turned each page until I found the Rose
fragile and brown
its flattened petals crumbled when I touched...

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He heard that she is poorly
Yet does her best to cope
Enduring life’s misfortunes
While clinging on to hope. 
She strives to beat depression
When winter’s hand turns...

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I looked out my window and what did I see,               ...

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my cardinal bird
singing sweetly just to me~
now eating your seed   



Date Written: 3/15/2022

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Powerfully displayed in a coat
Of brilliant crimson, alive
With flaming wings dancing in a dewy
Glimmer of morning sunlight
Washing the dawn with a vivid
Flash or color so...

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beautiful red bird                      ...

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Look, a bird flits by the window,
red feathers, scarlet, a cardinal,
taps its beak on glass, it can’t go
past, it stops and darts its head ’round.
Jane,...

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He landed in the tree the two of us were sitting under
a lonely cardinal…red
Immediately we began to wonder:
Is that a relative whose dead?

Because we both...

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welcoming songbird beckons sun
berry bright singer on snowy landscape
tragedy’s summer sting leaves me undone

warm tears still fall on autumn leaves
till winter shrugs its cold shoulder
ushers...

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