Mother Crow Poems

As though treasure lost
Cuckoo chirps in rhyme hiccups 
Eggs lay in crow’s nest
She knows crow will care her chicks 
For mother, every child’s hers

Does cuckoo...

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A crow told us not to go away
Whilst a knitting and a purling she did say
You can’t go to China for I am scared
The meet...

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Raymond Magpie fell in love with a crow.
When she was around, he was a glow.
It cannot be true!
Said Mother Prue.
I will bring him home by...

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When I was young, I took a tin can to the lip.
Courtesy of my best friend.
I ran away crying for mother.
(This was my first set...

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A baby crow
cowers in the street,
trying to hide from kids
from dogs
from well-meaning people.

Its parents fret noisily,
its mother raps her beak
sharply, angrily, furiously
on the telephone wire.

A...

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Crow,
Dancing on the green,
Are you bringing
My mother's spirit?

Crow
Picking grain
From my green,
Where is my mother's spirit?

Crow,
Flying in the sky
Above my house,
Where is my mother's spirit?

Crow
Do not...

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"I watch the bathwater drain"
says Tonight Alive with powerful refrain  
stepping out of a bleach bath to hide from her pain
Hesitating, she turns the...

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Take my lips from me, steal my teeth
Rip my voice from my throat
Throw a wrench at my voice box, there's no point in the lock
Sorry...

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Hello, it's me
I'm listening to Adele, numbing my courage to speak
Hello, it's me
I've been outside, knocking on your door since 3 with these uncomfortable boots...

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As the crow flies

I died. No child under nipple. No child under bib.
I died. Without ever having loved or been in love.
I died as the...

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It was a cold, windy but cloudless day
There was a Crow in a Jupiter tree
He cried out as if he was mocking me.
This morn, the...

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