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