Chirps Poems | Examples

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 
a single shot resting in the barrel—

Exhale.

A light tap on the trigger—
a sparrow’s footprint on fresh snow—
silent, sudden,
the sound catches up after
the recoil sends a shock to spinal cords

That’s when chirps falter into echo

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 less
layers of experiences - wisdom made very little difference
the pearl got lost in the yellow froth of my mess.

  Growing old 
what am I to leave behind...
a fistful of photos- memories forgotten
a few half assed poems 
a small sac of dirty dimes
Where does time go when its tired
years lost to a breeze-like a willow in spring
hard times and regret chirp away at the mind
like sparrows on a line-so little time
Where did the time go
I wish I could buy a little bit more
to release dream from chrysalis
place barbed words back in the voice box
to pay for goals unmet
to water parched apologies  
to tether forgiveness to regret
where did the time go
growing old.

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.

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
     rise and shine, tempt the fates

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 tiniest
glimmer
glints

before
the bubble of dawn 
creeps in
and blasts it away

before
it's burned
in the cold cruel reality of
all consuming light

I'm holding onto this
precious moment

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.
      Watchful eyes, it hawks its prey,
        As its tail rapidly moves in play.

  Kitty's claws climb upward thrall
    As, first scattered raindrops fall.
      From one small branch, to the next,
        The bird jumps, in frighten chirps, perplex.

  Separated from branches,
    And glimmering light patches,
      Moving steadily above,
        The bird is all Kitty can dream of.

  Spring-shower subdues, chirps shrill.
    Sun's touch, expectations still.
      Fully Kitty's view, it cries.
        Tree blossoms, limbs open, thrill bird flies.

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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©

Chirps

compatible chords 
cerise colored cardinals 
singing in the snow

 

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Sponsor Tania Kitchin 
1/18/2022

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 lost cricket, cornered under a deck step,
Chirps!  A repeating string of chirps!
His true place is elsewhere

In the night, by a willing mate.  The natural
Balance of his 250-million-year-old species 
Is upset — with only the heat sustaining him…
With his chirping!  Chirping rondo!
With the promise that she will come.
 
So, there he crouches.  Night…Night will come.
Heat will stay. His summer life yet has time to go.
So he waits.  Chirping!  His chorus repeats!
She will come.  They will touch when meeting
Then flee on to their otherwhere.

The coming night’s course will please.
So he waits…Earnestly  chirping!
Feeling the vibrations along his black back,
He waits.  In his summoning melody,
He chirps!  And, she will come.

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(c) sally young Eslinger 1/2022

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

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 lies. 

Leeches breed in the rot,	
	flies in remaindered potatoes 
	from shrinking stalls. 
	Progress stills, pinched by fear; 
	mediocrity strides to the center stage, 
	vulture swoops on a sport. 

    
© 2016 Celestine S. Ikwuamaesi

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

Chirps

Songbirds loose small chirps,
Tiny enough to slip through
Momentary rain.

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.

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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