Winter Crow Poems

"The Crow Bar"

she said,
here I bury my dead,
you can hear them sleeping
somnulent forget-me-nots,
snoring blithely unaware,
in neat rows between 
the thick,
ink injected lines,
their soiled lives
ploughed and...

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Crossing the creek, thawing waters,
slide among the ice chips;
naked sentinels stretch to touch the 
heavens. Dressed in their translucent wraps.
Snowflakes crunch beneath our boots
as a...

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I.

The Fish Crow is an outcast amongst the seagulls
Standing on the hot Miami sand
At the end
Of our rose-colored beach towel

Nodding and blabbing half-heartedly
Nuh-uh nuh-uh
To the...

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crusted snow gives way
	celebratory worm fest ~
		crow caws the ending...

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Spring will come soon
The crow is dancing on the frosty lawn
in the early morning...

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The crow rejoiced in the field today.
Husks were popped open with maize showing through.
Crop was up, smiling in her special way.
There was so much corn,...

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Early mornings, bright ice  blues as life wakens 
birds  and squirrels  scratching for seeds and nuts
black crows pound at the tree or...

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Old crows fly slowly,
To southern shores for winters
Big temper tantrums....

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Old Crow

Old crow
Tired and lazy' against the day
Dark skies
Lost in blacks and whites and grays
Howling north wind
Sure takes a man's fight away

Wastelands,
A dreamer's home on...

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A bird on the horizon
 He flew, a soft black crow
 Flying through the air,  the
 Sun has its favorite and he
 Was mine....

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Crow flies arrow true,
from limbs hung in dark cold 
cloaks. 
Ebbed sun, strikes the day....

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Three wholesome troubling years before, a thousand cursed days back
    I lay, most stiff within my bed, my house of death did...

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I’d like to discuss the manners of crow,
That dine on the roads where cars come and go.

They peck at road kill without forks or knives,
But...

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There is a crow amongst an old bare tree
Bereft of cold wind that blows in winter
This ancient tree, so bare and surely free

The bird is...

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Squirrel has peanuts.
A pile of peanuts in their shell
to crack and nibble very well,
and twirl through paws
like a fat baton.

Crow sits atop a lamp pole,
very...

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