Flightless Poems - Poems about Flightless

...“Freedom is just another word for nothin left to lose. Feeling good was easy Lord, when he sang the blues” ~ Janis Joplin ~ Life was filled with laughter. A feeling of happy ever after......Read the rest...

... The clay gives way to rich and poor, A life dictates through which door, To soar the skies a longed for quest, Or the burning fires, the Devil's guest. Forged the hearts above steely grass, ......Read the rest...

...Note: I wrote this poem over a year ago while I was struggling with long term, post-surgery pain, six months of physical therapy and recovery--a time when I truly felt physically and spiritually b......Read the rest...

... charcoal clouds plunder unholy bullets of rain on window panes of pain forlorn flutes summon crows & ravens ebony eyes hunger to abduc......Read the rest...

... three feet tall with grey feathers chubby with flightless small wings but fearless from intruders relic bones remain ......Read the rest...

...This poem is based on the painting of George Frederick Watts in 1886 Hope An angel sits above our world, Life’s mirador, Curtains splayed, a tragic play unfurls, H......Read the rest...

...REPAID by Doug Stoiber Out walking on a mindless errand, lost in thoughts of this and that I came upon a bleak tableau, cruel Nature in its direst test. A battered bird with broken wi......Read the rest...

... Her adorned stars, crackling overhead like embers in a fireplaced -sweat-stones of heavenly sky lodge. The bottomless pit of lipstuck warp ighs, ......Read the rest...

...Milky bright sky with rain in her net Morning performance with native duet Whip cracks and choo-choos crescendo in song Spurring near aves to jolly along The flightless young to pipe up and squaw......Read the rest...

...Maybe I seek meaning in the press of sympathetic eyes Maybe within me resides a cancerous longing to shatter into a million tiny pieces Maybe I will finally matter once tragedy razes the last vesti......Read the rest...

...Oh my pretty bird, Your distance disheartens me. When I would hold you in my arms, And you'd sing me goodnight. My gentle angel, My ears caved in. Your tweets were no longer bright and soothi......Read the rest...

...Wake Our Dawns As True Beautiful Flightless Angels Sweet small offerings I give to you Till your hands say a fine hello The months wear thinly our hungers I can almost hear your voice Standing......Read the rest...

...Flickering in green gold Floating little light bulb Flying with silent wings Flightless females await Flashing to find a mate Fluttering together Flare of sparks dance composed......Read the rest...

..." Do I look EMUSED?" Quote by EMU bird mistaken for an ostrich. Emu second largest. Eggs bright emerald green. Eyes are beady light brown. Every emu’s flightl......Read the rest...

...Cypress trees like evergreen steeples rise above rows of gravestone woes, their shadows lie side by side like railroad ties across writhing paths banded like snakes; the gravel birth cords sinuo......Read the rest...