long legged sacred
haunch observes
a veneration in Ancient Egypt
speaking beak in Thoth-Hermès hands
first feathers released from Ark
fertility symbol hailed by Moses ~
Spot light drawn on choppy lake
gray-winged egret
swoons over lakes surface
tiptoeing water
With stillness and balance
white egret rest on broken
protruding tree limb
from flooding lake
Hang your head in shame:
kept quiet in the face of injustice
~ the lingering taste of cowardice
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: 1st place 2025
The egret was poking along thorough the brush
A bull name of King began to get a giant crush
The last love interest he had was a tiny blue thrush
He offered the egret a bite of his oatmeal mush
She declined politely, as had that blue thrush
In balletic poise
focused with intense stillness
arc of white light strikes
Flowers have that novel effect on schism,
where the uniqueness of its design forms
compare that White Egret Orchid performs
like its namesake, chicken or the egg, ism
being afloat plume or the blooming grews.
Soggy-bottom boys and girls 'tis they want
of this bit of a ground-hugger-like haunt.
Sophistication hails for untamed shrews
attracts from up or a transferred potter,
with a metal device tool like a pick,
the gifted angular, pruning, technique,
lauds the fringed orchid, White Egret Flower.
Monkey Face Orchid, to Yulan Pink Birds,
venture advances, the future ... occurs.
CATTLE EGRET
Makinde Adebayo Adeniyi
Silken, snow-white feathers
Slender, elegant legs
Lovely long sinuous neck
Beautiful and benignly noble head
Stout, straight, sharp beaks
The cattle egret
Seen in the dry season
In symbiosis
With cattle and the wild
Visitors to the quiet countryside
Feeding on ticks and insect
Migrating with the arrival of the rains
To distant arid land
The cattle egret
Harmless as a dove
Graceful in flight
Beautiful in sight
Her arrival, like the sweet angels
Bring the sandstorms
Dusty, dense, dry vegetation in cold weather
Interspersed with hot noons
And that sweet aroma of harmattan
the setting sun
s i l h o u e t t e s
a great white egret
in sky of marigold....
so vivid;
a portrait of grace in flight!
it's long neck,
arched;
o u t s t r e t c h e d wings....
rhythmically flapping,
flying off
to an untold destination.
look at it!
just look at it go...
up,
up,
up,
up and away!
bye bye, bird...
Not too fat is Young Fair Rhoda
But she is fighting it with soda:
Rhoda not with the screaming width
Of Next - Door Neighbor Miss Judith
Now it's " Don't ever try Apple,
Let alone twice eat pineapple..."
Something that Seller Margaret
Had begun to nicely regret
And round pace like Cattle Egret
To Rhoda "No more Good Morning!"
Over someone else keep fawning...
"Dark Rhoda wants to be pageant
But no purse for bleaching Reagent"
Then one day
in balmy Florida morning
on the way to school
We saw it
the sole egret in the marshes
feeding on an early worm
Yeah ... we screamed
my daughter Zahra and I
Yehoo! Yehoo! Yehoo!
Sometimes the things
that you fear the most
never actually happen
(c) mbsaaka/2021
The sole Egret
White against the dark marshes
On the way to school
Wet in the drizzle
Yet present each morning
It had missed the migration
So each day as we passed
My daughter Zahra would exclaim
Dad, here she is!
We had lost count until the day
It left perhaps for good
Perhaps for ill, who would know?
That morning we saw an Eagle
It was nesting nearby
Somehow I suspect
Our sole Egret didn’t migrate
You know how these things go
An Eagle chick must eat
along the shoreline
a snowy egret hunting ~
sharp beak and big feet
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April 10, 2022
Poetry/Haiku/snowy egret
Copyright Protected, ID 04-1446-876-10
All Rights Reserved, 2022, Constance La France
Written for the Standard contest, Wild Animal Haiku
sponsor, Tania Kitchin, Judged 04/18/2022
Fourth Place
Transforming square peg
for a round hole,
a bird nest of an ark
holds secrets within
each crevice.
Surface metamorphoses,
in flight a snowy egret.
2-12-2022
A STRAND (1072) Poetry Contest
Brian Strand
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