Tree Hawk Poems

I sit under the trees

Later
My neighbor said
“I enjoyed watching you pray.”

“What do you mean?”

“You sat there so still
Head tilted up for a very long time.”

“I...

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messy squirrel nest high in an oak tree
raven hawk circulating
new babies eyes are shut...

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Hawk

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

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What was that I just heard
I think it was a baby bird

The sparrow hawk has come today
To take some baby birds away

He doesn’t come to...

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When primeval men were made,
Someone said they were perfect,
But I ask them how plausibly so
Can perfection beget imperfection?
They laughed and I laughed in return.
Some others...

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My husband bought me earrings
With an avian design.
They look like feathers of a hawk;
I’m happy that they’re mine.

At first they didn’t grab me
When within the...

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Rising suns I glide below,
With shadow small cast from my wings.
Warm air lifting begins to grow.
I'll ride slow winds of cosmic strings.

Splay my feathers and...

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A high-pitched screech announces
That the hawk is close at hand.
Whatever he is saying,
Other hawks must understand.

For me, I'm satisfied to hear
That plaintive, jarring screech,
Despite the...

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Once upon a mid-day dreary, as I wandered, weak and weary, 
through a forest so dark and  spooky.
While I was napping, I heard a...

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The hawk flies high upon the sky his dinner there to seek.
      His home the woods along the river- now...

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The mighty Chief Hawk Eye
Rests under this ancient tree
All his weapons lost
Ignores the sounds of English guns
His heart heavy with his people’s sorrow
Plays his flute...

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Soaring high above the grassy terrain,
Which renders much more than daily grain.
The waving grass is inviting me aground,
But cautiously first I'll just look around.

Effortlessly floating...

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