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Flycatcher Poems - Poems about Flycatcher

Premium MemberA Fly and a Bird

...I saw a buzzing, birding fly go by.
It spied a puzzling, flying bird up high. 
When it said, "that's a flycatcher, I think",
that bird caught lunch - a fly and a drink....
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Categories: flycatcher, animal, insect,
Form: Rhyme

spring

...dew drenched, wet
demure flycatcher blushes
at her vermilion mate...
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Categories: flycatcher, bird,
Form: Tristich



THE HERMIT CRAB

...-Let's see Cortinario with fattened foot
If you answer me, who says
To everyone who sees him:
If my mouth opens
You'll open too.
Clytocibe: -The Flycatcher
From the Cathedral of Burgos.
-Very ...
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Categories: flycatcher, allegory,
Form: Free verse

A Fragrant Lily Field By The Serene Bay

...I'm standing on a fragrant lily field
by the serene bay towards midnoon,
falcons gather by the splashing rocks
with eyes that scare away hungry larks;
they must catch their prey and be fed:
they...
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Categories: flycatcher, beach, bird, fear, sea,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberEarthly Thoughts Shimmer

...Jewel  layer templates
gilded upstream sigh
winsome eyelet skimmed
scorning  dawn orb
Delphic mustard sketch
on sapphire sequins 
Appalachian awning 
bearing flimsy nuggets
surreal slender st...
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Categories: flycatcher, celebration, city, creation, deep,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberA Mothers Heart

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A Mothers Heart
Miracle Man
4/20/2022

Scissor-Tail Flycatcher, Oklahoma’s bird,
I sit just watching until eyes become blurred.

It’s feet clutching wire awaiting sight of a treat,
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Categories: flycatcher, beautiful, bird, mother,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberNeurons

...I’ve sat here all night just trying to write
But nothing would spring from my brain
I looked in my mind and what did I find
I think that I’m slightly insane 

I’ve been unaware of things that li...
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Categories: flycatcher, nonsense, surreal, writing,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberFemme Fatale

...A black widow spider spins a silk thread
into a near-transparent dream catcher;
filling her with joy and her meals with dread.

A very cunning, deadly flycatcher
ready to pounce and mumm...
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Categories: flycatcher, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Terza Rima

Paradise Flycatcher

...A white flower with a long tail,
glides in the morning breeze;
Like an angel from the fairytales,
he eradicates venomous flies.

Black crown he dons, Angry face he has,
But his immaculate look ...
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Categories: flycatcher, beauty, bird,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFrustrated Flammulated Flycatcher

...Do not skulk, my mother said, sternly, meanly, and often.
How could I not? I asked myself. We are skulking birds, are we not?
Your bill is too black, my brother cautioned me. Try to tone it down.
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Categories: flycatcher, bird,
Form: Personification

Premium MemberStand Here

...I stand here
A chickadee at my feet
With the dogs content to sniff about
I stand here and I wait

One by one more of them come out
They flit about me in the leaf litter
Trapeze around me in th...
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Categories: flycatcher, appreciation, beautiful, bird,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberA Flycatcher Sang His Song

...A flycatcher sang his song today,
High atop a tall fig tree--
Out on the tipsiest branch
He swayed with rhythm
As he proudly sang--
Sang with joy, fluting so marvelously
I could scarce believe ...
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Categories: flycatcher, allegory, allusion, bird, music,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberDo I Really Need To Know

...Do I really need to know
Why the Flycatcher
Sits atop the tallest weathered pole
On a spring morning
And releases this most fantastic trill,
Rides it higher and higher
To a manic rage,
Causing...
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Categories: flycatcher, allegory, allusion, heart, imagery,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAll Soft Feathers and Flight Muscles

...In the intermediate zone between heaven and hell
opinions and complaints, after much moaning, may
come to be held in common.

The way a flock of chickadees
moves through the woods, cheerfully, 
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Categories: flycatcher, bird, change, day, happy,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberThe Fly Catcher's Shadow

...After the great disappearance ----
                      Confusion and death ---
                           --- Will ---
Spread across every land -----------
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Categories: flycatcher, family, lifedeath, death, men,
Form: Free verse

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