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Dawn Pond
...Brackish lichen forms a raft upon the pond, a low haze floats like a moored airship. Small frogs chirrup sotto-voce as if they were dreaming sparrows. Water birds dabble in their sleep. Soon ......
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©
Eric Ashford
Categories:
coots,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Fog and Water
...Fog over the inlet until water and air waltz together. colds ears muffled by the dank air. Grebes and Coots colonize this tributary. The ocean is close you can feel the tidal pull of it the imm......
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Eric Ashford
Categories:
coots,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Margin
...The sun will rise like a golden fish over the far bank, but for now a cobwebbed sky clings to the curling water. This is the margin where dawn issues through nights last gleam in ghostly dr......
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Eric Ashford
Categories:
coots,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
There Is a Lake
...THERE is a lake somewhere 'midst pollution, coots & comorants thrive Jewel in our overflowing sewage Creation endures Curse of (ANC, Adam &) Eve NoTE: ANC is the ruling party & government maj......
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Anil Deo
Categories:
coots,
africa, animal, childhood, future,
Form:
Rhyme
Shades
...coal clung crocodiles hide and seek of crows and coots --- blind butterfly bats 05 April 2023......
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Christuraj Alex
Categories:
coots,
nature,
Form:
Haiku
Inlet
...Fog slow-dances over the inlet until water and air waltz together. My ears are muffled in the dawn mizzle. Grebes and Coots colonize this tributary, gulls just visit, as I do. A person cou......
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Eric Ashford
Categories:
coots,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Cowbirds of South Africa
...Senryu and Poem, below: I Autumn, dawn, clouds, lake: Flutter of white storm - trash? Hundred cowbirds: commute II - The Poem: Maybe some 200 cowbirds- All white with adapted, heron-like bea......
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Anil Deo
Categories:
coots,
africa, beauty, bible, dark,
Form:
Senryu
Wildlife Day
...Be it a tiny butterfly flutters near wild flowers Or big fat flying foxes hanging off the lofty trees Be it a family of bulbuls relishing showers Or a mischievous monkey devours fruits, smiling wi......
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Supraja Kannan
Categories:
coots,
animal, bird, butterfly,
Form:
Sonnet
Getting Old Is Getting Old
...I've grown a bit slower, I've grown a bit fatter, my mission each hour: relieving my bladder. When I was a youngster, I had no idea old coots who eat fruits will just get diarrhea. My eyesi......
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©
John Watt
Categories:
coots,
age, old,
Form:
Rhyme
Ardea Cinera
...Nature comes to my rescue, and yours. I'm certain When trash and plastics fly and float on land Across this township called Newtown, a curtain Of pollution from burning what trash workers will rak......
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©
Anil Deo
Categories:
coots,
abortion, abuse, africa, bird,
Form:
Free verse
More Comorants
...I At Patuxent Refuge Maryland's Fish & Wildlife Center CASH LAKE boasted a few Comorants And more Ospreys II Across the Komani-Queenstown Route We have our South African waterways A string......
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Anil Deo
Categories:
coots,
animal, appreciation, bird, community,
Form:
Other
Dawn In the Pond
...Coots sleepily dabble in a smudge of water. Wisp-wings waft on a surface mist. Dipping ducks, necks tucked into the half-light. watch muddy shadows dive under mounds of stalky flotsa......
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Eric Ashford
Categories:
coots,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Ebony Cat and Pumpkin Bright
...A wizard, a witch and a wand went that way. But the Ebony Cat and the Pumpkin decided to stay. They had heard about the antics of a bumpkin, tragic. They knew one thing, these three had black magi......
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©
Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
coots,
cat, halloween,
Form:
Rhyme
The Stephen Hercules Shaw Memorial Bench
...Stephen Hercules Shaw Much loved, much missed Born the same year as you. I rest on the bench your mother bought, your brother bought, your friends bought, to remember and slowly forge......
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Pv Harrington
Categories:
coots,
bird, body, family, health,
Form:
Free verse
Margin
...The sun will rise like a golden fish over the far bank, but for now a cobwebbed sky clings to the curling water. This is the margin where dawn issues through nights last gleams its first gh......
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Eric Ashford
Categories:
coots,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
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