Grebe Poems - Poems about Grebe

Hi-Ku Jan 14

...weed covers the pond-
a crested grebe
dives for treasure

NOTE-HI-KU is any English language variation on the Japanese haiku...

Categories: grebe, poetry, word play,
Form: Haiku

A Tango On the Lake

...A Tango on the Lake
When Hooded Grebe are wooing a mate
Magic’s made in tangoes on the lake 
Lovebirds perform synchronised in tune
Bewitched beneath a bedazzling ...

Categories: grebe, bird, dance, desire, love,
Form: Rhyme

Poems About Poets Vii

...Poems about Poets VII

Gallant Knight
by Michael R. Burch

for Alfred Dorn and Anita Dorn

Till you rest with your beautiful Anita,
rouse yourself, Poet; rouse and write.
The world is not re...

Categories: grebe, christian, dance, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

It Is Time For That Happy Holiday Thang Again

...Regardless of how you paint the reason for the season
(or ignore it), I hereby invite you to join me in a call for/wish for/thought for/prayer for/(insert your word here:  ____ for) 

Peace on Ear...

Categories: grebe, chanukah, christmas, holiday, seasons,
Form: I do not know?

Grebe Lodge Shout-Out

...(A little poem written at a research station)

Adventurous cottagers challenge blue waters
They feel as homely as the gulls screaming ‘mine!’
With white sails they traverse the great blue horizon...

Categories: grebe, adventure, appreciation, beauty, nature,
Form: Light Verse

The Billabong

...There’s an old river course with beginning and end,
now the river runs straight without this river bend,
where the water is still and the reeds do grow strong.
New life has taken over in a billabo...

Categories: grebe, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Great Crested Grebe

...Come on in again...!
Let's go straight and 
sail                       
 In the bluewatered lakes,  
In the far Australian 
coasts;  
And nest in the waving  water          
With the floating ...

Categories: grebe, rose,
Form: Free verse

Sea Shanty

...As they were sailing ‘cross the ocean deep
They watched the sunrise and the diving grebe.

When up in the top, the lookout did spy
A storm advancing, with his weather eye.

The helmsman heeded the wo...

Categories: grebe, death,
Form: Couplet

One Day

...One day I will shoot you Grebe 

                                      so what is so great about you?

                                      You sit so still and proud with 

                        ...

Categories: grebe, bird,
Form: Free verse

Walking In the Hills

...At noon we sat down under a large old oak tree on a wild hillside with masses of rocks,
The day was very warm and I took off my knapsack and rested by the foot of an old tree,
Below was a spread of...

Categories: grebe, nature, old, water, old,
Form: Prose Poetry

Siluroid

...I am the prize catch
I live in an artificial lake
	fed by a nappe phréatique
I was put there to keep 
	lesser fish: carp
      from taking up too much space 
I live to be caught
           a...

Categories: grebe, devotion,
Form: Imagism

Haiku- Dawn Quaternion

...weed covers the pond-
a crested grebe
dives for treasure

a puffed up firecrest
alights upon
our smoke tree

a dawn delicacy-
the mistlethrush's
everyday grub

out of the nest-
the fledg...

Categories: grebe, nature
Form: Haiku