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Ma Little Brown Chickadee
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matthew harris
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chickadee, 10th grade, 11th grade,
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My Five Senses
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Dear Heart a.k.a. Broken Wings
| Rhyme |
chickadee, nature,
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haiku
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P.M. Richter
| Haiku |
chickadee, bird, morning,
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NATURE AND DEITY
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Line Gauthier
| Monorhyme |
chickadee, anxiety, longing, nature, peace,
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haiga
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Dear Heart a.k.a. Broken Wings
| Haiku |
chickadee, nature,
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Hutzpah
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Jack Ellison
| Limerick |
chickadee, sweet,
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Lily Marlene
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Paul Rochefort
| Verse |
chickadee, imagery,
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OVER FIELDS OF MARIGOLD - a sunset lullaby
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Line Gauthier
| Rhyme |
chickadee, angel, baby, children, fantasy,
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The Shoe Store Bantering
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cheryl hoffman
| Light Verse |
chickadee, funny love, silly,
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OH DEAR, WHAT CAN THE MATTER BE
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Line Gauthier
| Rhyme |
chickadee, animal, cute, funny, humorous,
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The Chickadee
by Madeleine Riha
Dancing nimbly on the boughs
His song insouciant and joyous
Feathers resplendent with colour
Dappled with the paling light
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Categories:
chickadee, beautiful, happy,
Cordial reception
by doug pederson
Cordial reception
If I am not here to see
Let him in, my little chickadee
If the bell rings twice it’s a pair
Don’t shut them out, its’...
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chickadee, bird, nature,
Old Heroes
by Paul Dandrea
On a dark and stormy
night in Salem
into the Beanery
they stalk
like heroes of
the Trojan war.
in gravid stillness
they sit
calm polite
proper distant....
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Categories:
chickadee, love,
PREDATOR
by Kim Rodrigues
PREDATOR
an empty squirrel hole
a chickadee takes refuge
shrike circles the tree
Kim Rodrigues © 2017
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chickadee, nature,
Bear and the Birds
by Charlie Gregory
Bear and the Birds
Vernal equinox comes shining.
Hungry wolves in forest whining.
Mighty bear awakens growling,
time to go on sky’s great prowling.
Chickadee feels night-time falling,
“feed me food”...
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Categories:
chickadee, bird, culture, fantasy, native
Madame Caillaux, Part 7 0f 7
by Michael Coy
(In late June, 1914, Austria declared war
on Serbia, thus initiating the First World War.
In Paris, this was ignored, because Henriette
Callaux had been found Not Guilty....
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chickadee, history,
Showy Springtime Scene
by David Bose
I caught a showy springtime scene
This morning bright in warming sun:
A Carolina Chickadee
An energetic orbit flapped
Then perched a tiny moment’s rest
Amid a dogwood’s snowy blooms.
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chickadee, bird, nature, spring,
In the shade of the setting son
by Grant Norwood
Not at once, but gradually at my feet
random leaves, brown and brittle
carpenters diligently march in
leaving my bark somewhat non-committal
Furtively, up grow the undesirables
the weedy...
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chickadee, death, life, metaphor,
Spring
by Brendan J. Simons
Stalactite icicles drip from the gutters,
As the geese return in a flying v-shaped flutter.
Flapping in the folds of the once frozen winds,
Whence plants spring forth...
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chickadee, nature, spring,
House Mouse and Titmouse Quarrel
by James Tate
The little house mouse said, “Isn’t it a shame,
How the tufted titmouse has stolen our good name?”
The titmouse could not refrain as she shook her...
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chickadee, animal, bird,
Bird Talk
by JG Collins
I hear the birds talking to me.
Chickadee, Chickadee, Chickadee Dee Dee Dee.
This one is telling me his name.
As I take my walks with my dog...
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chickadee, art,
Birdfeeder
by JP Armstrong
Birdfeeder raided
Squirrel stuffing with birdseed
Chickadee “dees” on
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chickadee, animal, bird, nature,
A Seasonal Walk
by Denis Barter
It’s a pleasure to walk out on a Winter’s day,
When the cold air bites, and deep snow’s here to stay!
To hear the wind howling through...
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chickadee, humorous,
Spring Easter Haiku
by Charmaine Chircop
the chickadee tweets
I eat my breakfast
without an egg
wings flutter
upon melting icicles
first glimpse of Spring
Grandma's garden
a missing rose lay
on her stone
Incense wafts
amongst the silent...
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chickadee, beauty,
Nature's Intelligent Partner
by Robert Ronnow
The wood is stacked for winter.
One way out of the mind's limitations
is through other minds' contemplations.
The books are stacked for winter.
Yet even that cannot satisfy.
Failing...
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chickadee, anger, change, fear, nature,
Enemies
by Robert Ronnow
I cultivated at least two enemies yesterday
the enemies I wanted
I wanted them to be angry instead of me
my attitude being I don't care I'll do...
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chickadee, anger, care, day, hope,
Black-capped Chickadees
by Robert Ronnow
Having not done the things I wanted to do
and the things I've done not being what I wanted to do
I sit here looking at lichen...
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chickadee, bird, family, health, joy,
Birds
by savannah feeler
A Chickadee flies from tree to tree,
an eagle soars over big blue skies,
Oh to be a bird to fly so free,
Where another dips and then...
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chickadee, beauty, bird, creation, emotions,
Black Capped Chickadee -Quatrain-
by Cynthia Jones
Black capped chickadee
sitting in my hand,
come play with me
across God's beautiful land.
Copyright Cynthia Jones
Nov.28/2004
I wrote this about my youngest...
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chickadee, beautiful,
Chickadee -Airless Suburban Haiku-
by Cynthia Jones
Chickadee flies low
looking for food he buried
runs into a tree.
Copyright © Cynthia Jones
Jan.28/2013
I haven't penned one of these in a while....
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Categories:
chickadee, bird, humorous, imagery, inspiration,