Grackles Poems - Poems about Grackles

...After an age, I found myself in her presence, Struck again by her simplicity, her very essence. A mathematician, now on a spiritual path, Her life, a testament to a transformative start. A pra......Read the rest...

...In the depth of the night, a concerto commenced, With drums of thunder and a melody of rain. Wind flutes played loud sniveling notes, Carrying pulsating tunes in blustery tones. Streaks of li......Read the rest...

...Silvan black Come the grackles Shimmering blue streaks Darting toward the sound Of bird song glee Bullies In Zorro garb Storm the bird feeder Black darts Flung at swaying targets Challeng......Read the rest...

...'News' may simply be an acronym, North, East, West, South, Space-time continuum Headlines capture minds— Imagine the water cooler buzz if the front-page news was: "A Plague of Grackles!" "A......Read the rest...

...Start with words pick up their sticks make a now-man. No eyes yet, maybe the garden grackles will peck out some. ......Read the rest...

...Grackles snap at the thin snow seeking frozen worms. Balloons of light pop in a chill sky. A marmalade cat sneaks the hedgerow fur low in the snow whiskers sparkling. Hawk cries grab our attenti......Read the rest...

...The summer has thickened, it has turned the hare into a dervish, the raccoon to a pantomime villain, made mice sing in the beaks of owls. The woods are bare now trees rattle, grackles cackle, ......Read the rest...

...Grackles I rambled along a city street Going nowhere with no one to meet. When I espied grackles in a tree, Stretching and heckling between the leaves. Purplish headed, black feathered ......Read the rest...

...The Great Hall of the People, Mozart, one night only. She appears above us, stepping out of a Chinese painting of heaven. She is the Queen of the Night, an Ibis arriving amid grackles. A s......Read the rest...

...I miss the nuances of daily life while weeks are frozen in this quarantine. I miss the lost normalcy of my days in all aspects, obvious and unseen. I miss turning my head to read the spines of t......Read the rest...

...This week our play at self-distancing and living amid a pandemic became real. Before the empty shelves and cancelled events were annoying but we had sufficient toilet paper to last a good while and t......Read the rest...

...Birds seen flying together in large flocks tonight Words of warning sounds emit as coos and cackles Herds of cows start running toward the barn door light Blurred together as a murder of black cro......Read the rest...

...Birds seen flying together in large flocks tonight Words of warning sounds emit as coos and cackles Herds of cows start running toward the barn door light Blurred together as a murder of black cro......Read the rest...

...Waiting for the light to change (A busy urban street), I noticed quite a gathering Not far from my two feet. Upon a sewer grate I saw Some starlings pecking ‘round Although I didn’t even Se......Read the rest...

...Wings monger air. A host of defrocked preachers buckle and swag. Mobs clique and crowd in clusters. Grackles, skip, jump, and plunder on. The birds pilfer, promenade, scrum, pluck, lift of......Read the rest...