Tea Tales
...Come and climb these
Broad bony branches and
Have tea on this tree
with me,
Let's talk our hearts out
Into the poems unsung.
Sleep silently singing in my sizzly eyes,
Sleep might snap...
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Categories:
hummers, art, beauty, happy, summer,
Form: Free verse
birdfeeder
...birdfeeder, birdbath
dichotomy of choices....
doves, hummers, cardinals
butterflies, and more species
seen from kitchen window ...
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Categories:
hummers, creation,
Form: Tanka
contrariety
...contrariety
brown thrasher takes morning bath....
doves, hummers, fly in
small and large birdbaths offer
water consolation prize...
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Categories:
hummers, bird,
Form: Tanka
Valley of the Hummingbirds
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About 10 miles removed from chaos and asphalt
we visited a ghost town.
It had decayed somewhat into a tourist trap.
Half the buildings were repurposed
or refurbished only a few looked like orig...
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Categories:
hummers, voyage,
Form: Free verse
Sweltry Summer
...One of those humid, hard-to-breathe summers
when flowers bloom across meadows and fields.
Fireflies glow at night to songs of hummers,
cicada; whose loud army never yields
Days at t...
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Categories:
hummers, summer,
Form: Sonnet
Hovering Flight
...
hummingbirds are God's gift to us . . .
with their unique "flight" - their agile hovering and darting
some with brilliant iridescent plumage and jeweled adornments
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Categories:
hummers, bird,
Form: Free verse
Down In the Summer
...Pink throated hummers
deep in the colorful blooms
thrum the only tune
cornflower blue skies
hummingbirds in plums and reds
whipped cream clouds adrift
the scents of sunshine
follow the day...
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Categories:
hummers, beautiful, bird, color, flower,
Form: Haiku
Garden Oasis
...Garden Oasis
Amongst the bees and the hummingbirds, I find my peace in my garden oasis.
My thoughts become sorted, by the peaceful purpose of eliminating weeds
The enemies of my soul.
We all ha...
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Categories:
hummers, flower, garden,
Form: Free verse
A Gift From the Faerie King
...It is the day of Transmogrification! The Hummingbirds were cheering.
I had no idea what it meant, but their enthusiasm was endearing.
I begged them to stay and tell me what was going on. Two hovere...
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Categories:
hummers, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Ode To a Hummingbird
...I see him Flutter over a rose, then darting to take another
Dinner is his first delight, not much tolorace for his brother
I see him watching from a distant bush, he stares in silent sweep
Then...
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Categories:
hummers, bird,
Form: Rhyme
My 4th Dimension
...Theorist talk about perspective and dimension
But to me it all lays behind what you dont mention
The mystery behind the bad and good intention.
In pursuit of unknown some journeyed to the cemetry
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Categories:
hummers, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Hummers
...Hummers
In the laziness of summer
To my garden dart newcomers
Ruby-throated flying hummers
Taste the nectar of midsummer
Ambrosia honey - hues of umber
When crickets chirp, rests in slumbers ...
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Categories:
hummers, bird, garden, summer,
Form: Monorhyme
The Lord's Breath
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"See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone.
Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing
has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land."
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Categories:
hummers, spring,
Form: Sonnet
Springtime Is Quite Grand
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end
of cold
spells flowers
in the gardens
and an azure sky
with sun all day
and sweet bee
buzzing
starts
birds
will sing
happy tunes
while building nests
soon babies wil...
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Categories:
hummers, spring,
Form: Ninette
The Lord's Breath
...
"See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone.
Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing
has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land."
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Categories:
hummers, faith, spring,
Form: Sonnet
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