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Curlews Poems - Poems about Curlews

Premium Member The Curlews Flight
... The Curlews flight. Means it’s goodnight. The dark, cool air. I hear you up there. The Curlews flight. Passage through the night. Their place to roost. Safe as my little hoose! The Cur......

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Categories: curlews, beautiful, bird, life, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ballad of Joyce Hill
...To her family she was coy but truly she would be their Joy, a country girl from Kingaroy - the fourth of eleven. Over hill and range she did tramp living......

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Categories: curlews, tribute,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member Salvage
... "Salvage" Salvage the fixating salvation unfurling from the wreckage of a numb world twisted inside treasure climbs swimming the ladder from the deep of all things ......

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Categories: curlews, muse, paradise, poets,
Form: Romanticism
And I Heard Again Those Voices
...And I heard again those voices, Buoyed upon a murmuring wind, And oyster-catchers with their Distinctive, shrill-piping call; The plaintive cries of floating Curlews, Carrying on t......

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Categories: curlews, autumn, beautiful, wind,
Form: Rhyme
Once Upon a Countryside
...Once were badgers in leafy dale, once were rabbits and foxes too, once were pheasants in shining copse where cuckoopint and coltsfoot grew. Once were songbirds in privet hedges, once were blu......

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Categories: curlews, anger, angst, emotions, longing,
Form: Rhyme



The Mermaid
...The bog cotton hisses in concert with the curlews bubbling wail. The salt air stirs the marram grass, the sand sedge and sea kale. Alone she walks in beauty 'neath the dappled harvest moon. Her ni......

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Categories: curlews, fantasy, myth,
Form: Rhyme
Diving In a Hypnotic Trance
...Moon smiles and night palls a velvet blue veil, And owls and curlews hail with a flirting tale; Xylophones and cymbals bounce for our dance, So come sweetie; let’s dive in a hypnotic trance. ......

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Categories: curlews, dance, love, music, night,
Form: Rhyme
Time To Go Merry-Go-Round
...You are in your prime, and I’m in my clime; Why sweetie in twenty then we waste this time? Come, dance; we can gently our pleasures hound, For here’s a time for us to go merry-go-round. Run......

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Categories: curlews, fun, humor, love, music,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Winds of Dawn
...Morningtide reverberates, the songstress calls, buoyant curlews play in oceans of copious grass, wave after wave shattering against dry stone walls, meadows dance the rhythm of the farmers weather......

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Categories: curlews, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wooh Is Me
...Boys whose, curlews virtues my, my, my And girls superb views Transverse views virtues Firms whose diverse views Oh, no Term used to sell venues Pay dues to entrepreneurs whose of ......

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Categories: curlews, allusion, analogy, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Bird Twitchers
...It’s time for concealing in hides and in nooks, with a a ledger; glasses; camera, and books, spend hours with patience in salt bush or long grass, in hope there’s a moment, one cannot let pass. ......

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Categories: curlews, bird, nature,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Great Kiwi Debate
...Our great debate is about to start Over which aspect is the essential part Of the word 'kiwi' -- Is it that strange-looking bird Or is it the green, fuzzy fruit that tastes so darn good? ......

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Categories: curlews, bird, conflict, confusion, fruit,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lullaby Series Iii
...up on the moors, sweet love shadows dance at dusk. low across the purple shades wild ponies whinny and snuffle steam into brown grass while curlews cry the sun to rest.......

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Categories: curlews, nostalgia, november, , sweet
Form: Free verse
A Summers Walk
...Flaxen fields of rye and wheat Basking in the summer heat. The curlews haunting, plaintive cry In hurried flight they cross the sky. Around the fields the hedgerows grow Full of thorny briar,......

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Categories: curlews, nature, summer, sun,
Form: Rhyme
Crofters Night
...We remove the stones from the field like they were rotten teeth stepped carefully over hawthorn hedge stepped with tired and heavy feet Remember this by the fireside ash and flame and sap and......

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Categories: curlews, allusion, poverty,
Form: I do not know?

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