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Great Blue Heron Poems - Poems about Great Blue Heron


The Great Blue Heron
The Age of Aquarius is now Don’t be fooled by what others say they know and see But those who have ears to hear let them hear And those who have eyes to see let them see Like the Water bearer the Great Blue Heron Rose from the creek and its massive baby blue wings Spanned the borders of East and...

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Categories: great blue heron, bird, birth, metaphor, miracle,
Form: Free verse
The Great Blue Heron - Epitaph For Fish
She's here again, nearly three feet tall wing span just as wide. She arrives every day at eleven fifteen landing silent on the roof shed then glides to the ground. She walks around the pond then steps up on the stones for a closer view. She eyes the water staring steadily, that long neck and equally long feet ...

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Categories: great blue heron, bird, fish, water,
Form: Epitaph



Great Blue Heron
I must tell you this bird: long thin legs, sharp beak wading in a dappled stream grayish blue, at home in cypress Curving skyward through Spanish Moss...

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Categories: great blue heron, appreciation, beautiful, bird, blue,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Great Blue Heron
Great Blue Heron Oh Great Blue Heron found along our shores, Your stately presence in the water shows A setting so sublime in quiet marsh Where flowing grasses sway in gentle breeze, And water ripples glisten in the sun… Untamed and free, you follow nature’s way. Alone you stand, majestic bird, with feet In water flow, your lifeline to survive… So motionless, you seem...

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Categories: great blue heron, beauty, bird, nature,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member A Great Blue Heron
A great Blue Heron The park behind our house recently redone And a Great Blue Heron has discovered fish I saw the heron standing in tattered wings Like a tattered skirt and tattered grass I wonder, what scissors have cut them all? A graceful neck, curved at crest Ready to catch and strike when hungry Strolling around the pool to snatch a fish And...

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Categories: great blue heron, animal, bird,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Great Blue Heron
the great blue heron glides low over the blue bay... schools of fish vanish ...

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Categories: great blue heron, bird,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Great Blue Heron
. Great Blue Heron stood ...

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Categories: great blue heron, animals, life, natureblue,
Form: Tanka

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