Missed links
Clawed wings, blue cheeks,
Rufous crest, maroon eyes
Gawky gait, baffling diet, odd
Bird stinks*
*Hoatzin bird
"The Hoatzin is an extremely ancient and isolated type, and it has very properly been set aside in a separate Order by itself" - Quote by William Beebe.
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He is doodle of peacock -- Rufous crest
buff breast, loud call, weird stock
malodorous, clumsy walk
a link of the first bird flock
I will have a caged hoatzin for sure
Hilarious that he’ll smell like manure
A tube of hummingbird acrobats
Barn swallows and wrens to amuse my cats
Komodo dragon with his friend mr gecko
Their cave so large, there might be an echo
Saltwater crocodiles and black cobras too
I am building my own personal zoo
A grizzly bear just awakened from his dream
A couple of deer captured as they drank from a stream
I will make their environments friendly and warm
When the honey bees hear, to us they will swarm.
birds interesting
a collection from nature-
all so beautiful
The Storm Petrel's are small birds that seem to hover,
little sea birds that appear to be walking on the water.
Loons unable to walk on land they shuffle like old people-
oh so graceful and skillful underwater can run across a lake . . .
Rails just love eating dense green vegetation,
Plover's like to run across a sandy beach hunting;
Roosting on a building is the beautiful Pigeon,
Oh so remarkable the Hoatzin is intriguing;
And electric blue Kingfishers are truly amazing.
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October 31, 2015
Combination of - Haiku, Couplet, Free Verse, Quintain
For the contest, A Poets Dozen (12 lines)
Sponsor, Silent One
Third Place
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