Trapped by Thoughts
...An eaglet raised with barnyard birds
will never soar to towering heights.
Though armed with wings designed for flight
It will never reach soaring height.
Thoughts are like wings designed to soa...
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Categories:
eaglet, depression, emotions, feelings, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
First flight of eaglet
...The first stretch of wings
Is when you make it flap
Oh, don't you lose balance
You really can make it, that's for sure
You're not to be afraid
You're not to be afraid
The second you hop
Kn...
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Categories:
eaglet, bird, song,
Form: Free verse
Dear Mentor
...I lost you with the passing of the years;
You disappeared into the chaos of life
but, for a time, you were the bedrock of mine
and the hero of my story.
Confused and without guidance, I strug...
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Categories:
eaglet, absence, confidence, growth, hero,
Form: Epic
Burlesque Bernadette
...Flagrant bird Bernadette feathery flair flamboyant
Towers over average plumage
Parades tassle twist pantomime pow wow warbonnet
Cascade costume illuminating
Cheyenne ...
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Categories:
eaglet, angel, animal, beautiful, visionary,
Form: Rhyme
It's My Time To Fly
...It's My Time To Fly
Lord you know all about me
You see what's in my heart
Only you alone can guide me
show me where to start
With patience you teach me wisdom
in faith I'll learn to walk
Lor...
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Categories:
eaglet, bird, character, devotion, growth,
Form: I do not know?
Flights In the Gyre of Being
...The chick killed its brother;
the weak have to be expelled
from the nest,
It had to be the last and the first,
the one still instinctively pecking,
still begging from the raw red mouth
to endur...
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Categories:
eaglet, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Homey Hiatus, Hiatus Homey
...Homey Hiatus, Hiatus Homey
Noble nascent notice nature,
frequents features fertile favor,
charming colors cure complacent,
notice nature, noble nascent.
Subtle stages stylishly sort,
pledge...
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Categories:
eaglet, nature, peace,
Form: Rhyme
I Hate Beginnings
...I hate beginnings, plenipotentiary prattle, use-
less sedimentary-sounds. A preface and first chap-
ter betwixt the suc-
culent kiss, the marvelous mystery unfolding.
wash your hands, bobblehea...
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Categories:
eaglet, books,
Form: Free verse
Heighten Hiatus
...*Image of The Garden of Words by WordPress.
Heighten Hiatus
Noble nascent nurtures nicely,
arrest aspects acme ably,
charming checking cure complacent,
nurtures nicely, noble nas...
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Categories:
eaglet, nature,
Form: Quatrain
Spring On the Potomac
...With apologies to Robby Burns and Sweet Afton - in celebration of Spring, and the return of our Bald Eagle family to their Great Falls home on the bonnie banks O’Burn Potomac:
Oh to be in Great Fa...
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Categories:
eaglet, bird, inspirational, political, river,
Form: Ballad
The Eaglet
...they killed the eaglet
tearing his talons and wings
as he fought for life
1/24/2019...
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Categories:
eaglet, abortion,
Form: Haiku
Dropped Into An Eagle's Nest
...The eagle mistook me for a bunny. She swooped down and picked me up from the field, and we went soaring high in the sky, past the swing set, past the fence, past the tree line, up, up, up.
She tig...
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Categories:
eaglet, fun,
Form: Narrative
Anticipation
...Anticipation
Like a cold night's yearning for sun's warmth,
I await her.
Like a dry sand beach welcomes the tide,
I await her
Like a breathless groom at the altar,
I await her.
Like de...
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Categories:
eaglet, desire, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Take To the Skies
...Fly with me
This poem depicts a beautiful picture of how God often set us up for success.
An Eaglet is hungry in his nest
His body steadied in a cold rest
Mom comes flying in an undulating br...
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Categories:
eaglet, adventure, faith, inspirational, leadership,
Form: Quatrain
Limerick 5
...Eaglet,dolphins and waning light,
Plane,rockets and flowing kite.
Attendant of air all are,
But eaglet boast of her star.
Now,she's is out of sight.
c.2017...
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Categories:
eaglet, allegory,
Form: Limerick
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