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Flightless Poems - Poems about Flightless

Premium Member Self-Portrait with Flightless Bird
I gave myself the body of a secretary bird— long legs like accusations, a face too sharp for comfort. But wings? I borrowed from a taxidermied dodo: soft, irrelevant, stitched to the wrong century. In the background, a sky I did not earn. In the foreground, a foot poised to crush a snake that looks suspiciously like me....

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Categories: flightless, bird, self,
Form: Free verse
Flightless
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Categories: flightless, bird,
Form: Other



Love The Flightless
Penguins, loyal beasts Escape from reality My serenity...

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Categories: flightless, animal,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Wake Our Dawns As True Beautiful Flightless Angels
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 in the valley of abstinence Nights peering into blasting moonlight Out of my deep loving heart Flows great winds of sheer desire I pause, living for your breath You that...

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Categories: flightless, angel, art, beautiful, heart,
Form: Verse
Fight Another Day Flightless Ostrich Egg Bird
Why are your wing's so ruffled black It begs the question what on earth is the air up there contaminated with Is that maybe the reason why it's 2 shades of gray on a English summer's day in the old U.K And why migrating fleeing folks of bird's celebrate coz lost and have to hastily turn obtuse 90 degrees right mid-flight Gliding upon a...

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Categories: flightless, romantic,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Flightless Birds Trapped In a Gilded Cage
Flightless Birds Trapped In A Gilded Cage. . Fledgling innocents incarcerated in a gilded ornate cage Budding pretty flowers Within the blossoming of youth Of tender sensitive age . Born into an imperial dynasty By destiny and decree A view from a palace window To the outside world Was all they’d often see Far from the peasant underclass Living in the gutter of poverty . Each one...

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Categories: flightless, childhood, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Flightless Bird
it’s off the beaten path this adventure she’s living her courage and imagination an effervescent passion her mom can’t fathom and follows her accomplishments with pure delight and silently wishes she could somehow grow wings on her own AP: Honorable Mention 2020 Posted on June 20, 2019...

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Categories: flightless, fantasy, imagination, inspiration, passion,
Form: Free verse
Flightless
Upon the branch of wasted nothing Where hampered flight upon crushed wing Seldom do days come shorter When seldom is there reason to sing But to push out from unhappy nest Without course to fly Better to fall and lay at rest Then yearn for unreciprocating sky...

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Categories: flightless, angst, anxiety, depression,
Form: Ode
Flightless Burden
Maybe if I felt more useful I wouldn't feel quite useless Maybe if I was told I could be I could have been more then you saw me Perhaps if I was convinced Wouldn't have required the urge false represent Could have been a someone If I could have been anyone More then as i was told I could have Maybe...

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Categories: flightless, anti bullying, appreciation, courage,
Form: Bio
Flightless
Through the open panes I ponder a nightingale lost in flight singing to me a soulful song Her beak barely quivers but her sound it resonates deep waiting for me to gain my wings But I am flightless even my thoughts are capped in a bottled-up breeze I long to feel again freedom amongst a pristine sky Come into my window and help me float away if only...

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Categories: flightless, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Flightless Old Birds
Flightless Old Birds I spill ink upon a most sadden page life of youth was once all the rage Good times were to readily be had even a dull day was not all that bad For each new morn brought renewed hope nothing, nothing seem beyond our scope This ink sets in its newborn form tired words seem to be my new...

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Categories: flightless, age, creation, deep, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Flightless
I cannot fathom all the things I've tried, To at last, find comfort in your presence, to turn the tide, and prove my time well spent, Then toss all disillusioned thoughts aside. Oh strife, oh strife, I pray through days and nights To at last, feel welcomed by your harsh glance, Like birds during spring, we'll sing and we'll dance; Sleep upon...

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Categories: flightless, absence, love hurts,
Form: Sonnet
Even More of the Flightless
3 Pay attention! Important chicken poetry coming up, though no binary fantasies shall deconstruct into raucous biddy enjambment. 4 Grandfatber always kicked Grandmother's chickens away while he sat whittling under the Oak, Those ruddy, Cherokee cheeks sweating even in the shade as sweltering Carolina summers and bifocaled old women melted him away in his seventies;...

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Categories: flightless, bird, child, memory,
Form: Free verse
Still More Memories of the Flightless
2 Grandma's old corn sheller rests upstairs in an attic in Portland, Oregon; Mother got it before the sisters, cousins and aunts (who got the purple tea pot and hand-made egg basket) could; It could still shell corn for Rhode Island Reds or White Leghorns even gray Domineckers some day after Judgment when/and if Grandma...

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Categories: flightless, appreciation, bird, earth, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Flightless
I'm losing control tonight I've decided to search for something else I will close my eyes for my mind to take flight And buy time for moments it'll sell I can see her eyes if I wanted to But I am not to hold her like I know To almost feel her warmth like I knew Yet illusion is all the mind...

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Categories: flightless, love,
Form: Rhyme

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