Nature Cuckoo 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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without internet

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Perching brazenly on a bough
The herald of spring
In its wrinkled black and white striped vest
Demanding intimacy
With its proclamation
This rogue itinerant
Reckless and brash
Ready to mate
And ready...

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Nature… imagery and plants
Words dipsy-doodle and dance
  ~ I'm haiku cuckoo...

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swallows housemartins
once summertime sky wonders
screaming swifts missed

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invasion
descendants deposed
cunning cuckoo

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(c) John C Michaels, February 2017

I've posted two Haiku variants on the same theme: one is the traditional 5-7-5 form ("Cuckoo - A")...

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Uninvited guest;
progeniture subverted;
instinct or ill-will...?

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(c) John C Michaels, February 2017

I've posted two Haiku variants on the same theme: one is the traditional 5-7-5 form ("Cuckoo...

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Cuckoo Haiku

Flightless, no feathers
Strange gray bird, drinks river dry
Cuckoo forgets song


Created On 9/18/14 for Creative Poetry Contest...

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The bursting blossom of a pear tree twist and swirl with a lavishing beauty,
Promising plenty of fruit along each smooth branch and bough delivering all,
Rosebushes...

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The bursting blossom of a pear tree twist and swirl with a lavishing beauty,
Promising plenty of fruit along each smooth branch and bough delivering all,
Rosebushes...

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brief  encounter


marriage of convenience...

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Isolated, lonely, alone
Apart, aside colourlessly known
Yet a music, song for the world
Unseen, unheard, tales told
The dryness of scorching heat and the dogs days warmth
And the...

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Little Grey Cuckoo
Singing, only for himself
A "Broken Record"...

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Wild genesis on the spot,
not revised, not memorised,
a stop gap in a script,
verbatim, improvised.
Yet told so much of human nature,
addiction to atrocity,
the logic of the...

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