Egret Poems - Poems about Egret

In balletic poise focused with intense stillness arc of white light strikes...

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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...

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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...

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I re: egret forsaking gull friend where, heron eye twitter Fictional account related courtesy one pink flamingo. Aves lusting for verboten tweet reed lubricious sin after giving Twiggy another peck on the cheek. Whenever this birdman alone with his thoughts (as they metaphorically worm their way to my nest of quintessentially straggly, and uncombed matted hair), I doth twitter tomb...

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the setting sun silhouettes a great white egret in sky of marigold so vividly; a portrait of grace in flight! it's long neck, arched; outstretched 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... A Brian Strand Premiere Choice, No. 54 Poetry Contest Sponsored by Brian Strand Date written: 12/13/2022...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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I Cattle Egrets have lifted my Spirits Here in Ft. Beaufort, dirty, not dirt BY choice, folk in small spaces Hide from Civilization, national mandates On Environmental Courtesies and Policies But these birds survive and thrive While feces flow from poor piping and bad human habits Making shacks (for income) in backyards In Sunny South Africa, developed nation Once basking in respect, Mandela's reputation II In cool...

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along the shoreline a snowy egret hunting ~ sharp beak and big feet ____________________ 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...

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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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Egret Over still waters Elegant as the day fades - A pair of Egret Barry Stebbings Jan 2022 Photo July 2021...

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I watched an egret on a pond take flight and hid as best I could against a tree, not moving, breathless staying out of sight. Remembering, I close my eyes and see-- the view! A sweet reward for all my pains, it flew with whooshing wings right over me! Today, the tree is gone. The pond remains. Sometimes I walk...

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The whitish bird, Soon in the midst of a herd: One, two and, soon, a third …. Partly there to supervise their curd, Fractionally, to catch their navigating word; Sometimes around pacing like their king, While their “moos” in its ears ring. But chiefly the Egret is visiting a dining table, Of which a reaching it is capable: Easily, a pecking pouncing on the...

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King egret keeps watch Over the falls of the forest Watching his kingdom with a prophet’s eye Surveying diamonds on the moving water The river’s rapids are dancing this morning Bringing their cool music to the forest’s ears King egret’s feathers are enduring a bit of the splashes He glides a bit higher, feeling the sun on his back....

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