Time Hummingbird Poems

Mid December. Most birds have vacated our yard, having instinctively flown south for the winter.  Out of habit, I look out my kitchen window...

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Like fireflies glimmering, glistening
Tempting the night with their intimate kisses,
Robins and wrens, breathless wings dancing
Waltzing in the wind, swaying and twirling
Erasing every doubt of falling...

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As I gaze into the morn
A flawless fleck catches my eye.
It is a simple hummingbird
So complex as it flits and flies, 
Searching for its next...

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whisperings of wings
deep drone of summer's old gold
red rose drips petals

only time will tell
of the countless jeweled birds
summoned by the blooms

fanning the breezes
'til the last...

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I see him Flutter over a rose, then darting to take another
Dinner is his first delight,  not much tolorace for his brother  
I...

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sometime during a star slashed night
slipping into hummingbird time
dirt roads bled into oil slickened autobahns
blood thickens - bones slow
gears screaming -colors blend
barely time to catch...

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I've always been fascinated by the hummingbird's ability to be motionless in flight yet wings moving so fast they are barely seen. It has a...

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After a baker's dozen years 
a hummingbird friend 
suddenly appears
a bit wing weary
still stunning
flashing killer wares-

A thousand adventures
a million petals sipped,
I'm just an old twist
on...

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The first time that I saw one I could not believe my eyes.   It seemed a wingless body…somehow floating in the air… 
With...

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Hummingbird come sit upon my feeder
Drink your fill of red nectar made by man
Flowers come and go - this comes from Walmart
Take your time to...

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in bounteous blooms
where rapture and beauty meet
in green parkland days

a colorful blur
gone past the edge of my sight
sweet humming I hear

but mellow sunshine
seems to overpower...

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Nearby my lovely rosebush, a surprise
I got, as I approached my house one day.
From out of nowhere – right before my eyes -
a hummingbird appeared,...

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Poor Ruby Hummer looks confused,
searching for her favorite feeder.
It was right there when it last was used,
in September, in the cedar.

Above the Bee-balm and Lobelia,
in...

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“Beware…the beauty of the flower isn’t always as it seems.  
If you choose to partake of the sweetness of the nectar, 
your fate may...

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the flutter of little wings
pulsating in a windless dusk
as i watch the setting sun
glissade across the florid sky
its cerise glow reflecting prismatic
burst of colors on...

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