Animal Eagle Poems

opulent opal
	magnificence in motion ~
		mutuality

(February Full Moon – Cree)

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Eagle
by Lanier Thomas

Safely soaring above the sky
The eagle continues to fly.
On stately wings that glide on air
Like drifting dreams without despair.
Onward over the horizon it...

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A drama unfolded at noon yesterday
Beneath a row of Laurel's we’d planted one year
From across the meadow  it wasn’t quite clear
Just what was fighting...

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eagle owl startles me as she swoops around
staring intently at possible prey on the ground
I hope she is not thinking of hooking those talons on...

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Soft-shelled things by their sources laid
On spots assuring them no raid:
In my poultry picked up by maid,
With care handled or her upbraid
“Boiled or Omelets but...

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Here comes the talon bird, sea eagle to you.
His grizzly bear claws will do much damage too.
A grip strong enough to break a human’s arm.
I...

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I was a nervous young fawn
Tasting sweet April grass in a lovely meadow
Sensing danger, realizing wolves were surrounding me
Bam!

I had shapeshifted into one of them.
Their...

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“Hi Eagle, loonie for your thoughts?”

“Hey Beaver, what made them choose you for a national animal?”

“I’m a symbol of perseverance and strength, persistence and hard...

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The day The Eagle is defeated
The incident shall be repeated:
All transmitting stations televise it, 
The rarely praised tongues loosen in wit!
Born - to - Rule...

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blocks sun with wing clouds

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Grizzly bear is outrunning the eagle
They have spotted the same catfish jump
The splish splash of the water was enormous
It will be a tasty morsel for...

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catfish in hiding
alert frog sees wing shadow
eagle stays hungry...

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The eagle’s confident wings are ‘The why’
It does powerfully fly,
All the time, unimaginably high
Up in the cloudier, foggier sky,
Where humans don’t ply…
Between the straight and...

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some...
time s'phere
bubbles

- rise early -

to...
hype-knot tie
eyes of mind


stan sand...

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The eagle:

Once was a night,
when she flew,
when she flew that night,
she flew to a great new height
once she had reached that height,
she dropped back down,...

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