Nature Hawk Poems

The signal to leave is called out urgently.
Blue jays spin, whistle, and gurgle.
Heralds of the gray days of winter.

We climb Hawk Ridge Observatory hill.
The rough...

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Less than eighty, now ... they're, unaccounted.
'Tis sad ... NEXT: the hawk hovered that founded
fresh sedges, grasslands, and deserts idyll,
God in the detail, Red-Tailed Hawk...

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high up in the sky
     scouring the field for its food
the red hawk circles...

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The hawk swooped down with a loud scree,
a death knell for the small chickadee....

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On this mountaintop I sit
In solitude reclined –

For such a heightened lift
Soul-weary did I climb
The world foresworn – a bit
(My aching heart inclined)

A flowing form...

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From the top of Penn Center
he chose his first victim
Twenty stories up
as the train rolls below

A solitary pigeon
breaks free of the pack
Its eyes focused downward
for...

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climbing on a breeze
wings shadow the land below
eyes pierce the dark...

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The hawk flies over
         in paralysing calmness       
   ...

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Said the Chipmunk to the Hawk

Said scared, little, tail-striped chipmunk to red-tailed hawk,
“I am hidden over there where you will not find me.”

Said hawk in...

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Above me soars my Spirit Guide
it scans the light draped sky
as it glides through the firmament
in answered prayer, the Hawk is God's reply

This bird of...

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H is for Handsome 
A is for Awesome 
W is for Wonderful 
K is for Kind...

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Tremble
by Michael R. Burch
 
Her predatory eye,
the single feral iris,
scans.
 
Her raptor beak,
all jagged sharp-edged thrust,
juts.
 
Her hard talon,
clenched in pinched expectation,
waits.
 
Her clipped wings,
preened...

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Hawk

The Hawk 
     
     I was at work, walking outside when I heard a hawk call. His...

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Hawk Pursued by Squawk
Dark & White Mottled Flight,
Red Chasing Cardinal Instilling Fright,
Guarding Agin' Invasion Not Right.

Tiny vs. Awesome & Fearsome,
Courage Hear Ye All This Poem,
Able...

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While passing through the sunken gardens;
On my way, after lunch;
A great bird, wings outstretched,
Came down from the sky, all hunched.

With wingspan between four to five...

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