Footsteps of a Sparrow
I watch
colors distort into
dots tiptoeing on the white wall
Black target expands—engulfs—
flitting between rear and front sight
Blood drums in my ears—
tides I ride with breath held
shallow. It hums, the shadow—
taunts with broken birdsongs
It knows.
All it takes is
a skipped heartbeat
for a sniper to fall
Countdown.
Lens focusing into center
breaths narrow into blade, inhale—
The world refined to
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Categories:
chirps, analogy, bird, music, snow,
Form: Free verse
Chirps on a Wire
Growing old
things loved and cherished come and go
phone calls- text messages thinning
tossed aside in a world of folly and frost-
Growing old
in a world that keeps getting colder
hard faces-hovering over graying steps
cobwebs in the corner of an empty nest
Growing old, another funeral procession -one friend less
life becoming endless blue eulogy-nothing more nothing
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Categories:
chirps, loss, old,
Form: Lyric
Cheery Chirps
Chirps
of wrens
are cheery.
You can hear them
as they croon their tune.
They compose a chorus
transcending the evening moon.
Singing rhythmic modulation,
joining with angels and golden harps,
they harmonize in glad celebration.
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Categories:
chirps, animal, bird, celebration, environment,
Form: Etheree
Dawn Chirps a Melody
Dawn chirps a melody
Birds of promise beckon me
High-fliers inspire emulators
to flap our wings, become creators
Ahead lies adventure
sunlight, the perfect mentor
In my pinions, the day awaits
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Categories:
chirps, adventure, bird, flying, song,
Form: Couplet
Precious Moment
I smell fresh light wafting
near this dissolving darkness
I hear its faint ringing
the second hand ticking
while the refrigerator hums
and the distant driver drones
I tensely anticipate
the first tweet to ripple the silence
a tentative answer
an assertive reply
a confident rejoinder,
the ensuing cacophony of chirps
and
the distant driver cross fading
into the morning commute.
So
right now
in the warmth
of this darkness
before
the
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Categories:
chirps, bird, light, morning,
Form: Free verse
Chirps From the Treetop
The swift, whiz, of a spring breeze,
Young leaves nodding in the trees.
Quick flutter of small wings, through
High branches searching the sky of blue.
On cushion grass, Kitty walks,
Anxious sits, meow, it talks.
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Categories:
chirps, bird, cat,
Form: Verse
Winter's Sparrows Chirps-
shining wintertime
a swamp, feathered sparrow chirps
because of the dog!
3/2/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2022©
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Categories:
chirps, adventure, analogy, bird, dog,
Form: Haiku
Chirps
compatible chords
cerise colored cardinals
singing in the snow
*Used Howmanysyllables.com
Nature Haiku with Alliteration Poetry Contest
Sponsor Tania Kitchin
1/18/2022
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Categories:
chirps, bird, nature, song,
Form: Haiku
In the August Heat
(Even Poetry can recall the warm days of summer.)
** In the August Heat **
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August roasts the red pears
Sitting crowded on the sill…Spoiling
With no protection from
The open, lime-tinted curtains
Speckled with tiny violets.
Shimmering sunbeams stream diagonally
Through the room’s air, while outside,
A
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Categories:
chirps, imagery, imagination, nature, night,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Little Birdie Chirps In Potus' Ear
Do you want to hear Hurrays
Tired of boos; want some Yeas
Drop impulsive texts and tweets
Give the nation a welcome treat
Every time that you get mad
Take my advice, comrade --
Think what Abe Lincoln would say
Think what Abe Lincoln would do
He re-united a divided nation
Give it a try; maybe you can too
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Categories:
chirps, america, bird, history, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
When Vulture Chirps
on a perch, the air stinks;
lies swarm as flies.
Dare not voice a bite of truth,
or flash a light in the dark hollow,
except to trace the way to the gallows.
As dark clouds dip, lowering,
stars slink, blinking at the rear.
The sun courses without shine;
the moon drones on timidly like
a bunch of buzzing
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Categories:
chirps, allegory,
Form: Free verse
The Skylark Chirps
the skylark chirps
of amorous refrains
mellow as night…
a winged hymn echoing
tales of my deepened woes
Andrea Dietrich's Tanka 3:Return to TOP TEN
3/26/2015
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Categories:
chirps, bird, song,
Form: Tanka
Chirps
Songbirds loose small chirps,
Tiny enough to slip through
Momentary rain.
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Categories:
chirps, animal, nature,
Form: Haiku
Hospital Chirps
Written on July 23, 2012
As the doctors and nurses begin their day,
The cricket chirps resonate
Throughout the hallway;
as if they own all of the luck in the place.
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Categories:
chirps, health, nature,
Form: Free verse
Chirps
like birds chirping in early mornings
memorys flickering give me warnings
of things in pasts that may return
if lowly people never learn
to be the change they wish to see
instead of begging diety
lest we will surely lose this fight
and like those chirps, be gone with night
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Categories:
chirps, life
Form: Rhyme
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