Flightless Bird Poems - Poems about Flightless Bird

WILE E COYOTE Cartoon Character Clerihew Poetry Contest

...WILE E. COYOTE
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With ACME’s ludicrous gadgets galore, in the desert Wile E. Coyote plots
Builds rockets and traps that his nemesis, the Roadrunner, inevi...

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...

I Walked

...I walk 
I walk the earth
with dark and heavy steps
I walked the earth in search of something
I walked the earth until my feet turned black

there were times of great plenty
there were times of...

Right

...Right


If Heaven’s gates are all that wait,
Then let that fate which I await,
Take me in; I can no longer stay.
This fool for love hopes for judgment day.  


This life I lived, to all I gi...

Lachesism

...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...

He Writes

...Sometimes he writes to her
upon a white paper moon.
The ink of his thoughts
dries to invisibility
as he folds the love-letter
into an origami model
of a flightless bird,
a creature now extinct...

The Great Fish Maui Snared

...With canoe and hook of a jawbone
  below a great fish Maui snared,
and his brothers half-crazed behaving
  leapt and gouged in frenzy craving.
From Palliser Bay to Cape Reinga 
 (departing p...

He Who Loves Here and Now

...History is a loudmouth dunghill hen,
Who so hid hind it were left to cavil,
He who loves here and now’s a happy man.  

Past, a flightless bird, primes its wings in vain, 
A dodo buried under sn...

Death Online

...Unsupported website…
 wingless flightless bird
 Distant echo of keystrokes past
—lost abandoned words

(Dreamsleep: January, 2022)...

Another Poem About Despair

...I saw a songbird sing
Joyful she was with her song of hope
No tears in her eyes
Just the sunshine and the baby blue skies
I heard her sing her song of admiration 
Her song filled with the sweet ...

The Gift, the Truth, Hope and Its Sweet Promise

...The Gift, The Truth, Hope And Its Sweet Promise

Your hope- you have gifted unto me
unto me, a vagabond shifting sand
a flightless bird lost in its plumage
under a great and mighty oak tree
abo...

Painting Pictures With Words

...A shimmering sun
Illuminating rays of fun

Sparkling ocean
A universe's devotion

It could be tragic
To capture the magic

Let the colors free
For exuberant eyes to see

A dazzling dance
...

False Wishes

...You seem happy
But of course, everyone puts on an act
A full face of non-existent make up
You put it on before you take the first step out your door

I do not despise all happy people
But I pre...

A Raven's Pain

...a flightless bird too sore to soar,
for i’m a raven wearing pain-
fear begins a tragical war,
whispers from sated stars remain

i kept secrets until you died,
        for you are the one i ...

Passivity

...For want of full virtuous zeal oligarchs thrive 
Against deserving clamor for brighter ideals;
And perennially trampled commoners groan
Under weight no inured villain distantly feels. 

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