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Jackdaws Poems - Poems about Jackdaws

Meatball Noose

...Corked off glue, oral mucosa clamped, oyster bald razor, thumb running along twine binding the package, a conductor testing violin tension. Hairy balls of fire, a jackdaws caw, drawing her in with di...
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Categories: jackdaws, america, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

Meatball Noose

...Corked off glue, oral mucosa clamped, oyster bald razor, thumb running along twine binding the package, a conductor testing violin tension. Hairy balls of fire, a jackdaws caw, drawing her in with di...
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Categories: jackdaws, america, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse



Lifes Jackdaws

...Life’s Jackdaws
I wish it were now! Yes now!? ?Seven tens and two years further along,
like that dead headed summer garden, you know the song, you a long time gone,
In your eyes I saw all the answ...
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Categories: jackdaws, bird,
Form: Rhyme

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...Runners in the park;

dogs a-barking.

Jackdaws in the sky;

morning light sparkling.

The calmness of dawn,
       greets the brightness of day.
The serene atmosphere gives way,
	 to the ...
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Categories: jackdaws, solitude,
Form: Free verse

Birds Do Ballet

...Birds do ballet out there on the grass.
Gulls have come in from the sea.
Blackbirds are always here, and so are crows,
with jackdaws, too, and magpies.
A silent ballet, nothing to hear
within th...
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Categories: jackdaws, art, beautiful, bird, dance,
Form: Free verse



Odds

...Against all odds
I live to breath-in the daylight
that filters through dark curtains.

The green plant (grown from seed)
is still sleeping.
I forgot what kind it is, it has no name
but against...
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Categories: jackdaws, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Country Church

...Some pondered ways
to pep-up the pulpit and pew,
but disinterest and ennui won the day.
The clergy went away to get help
and never came back.

Eventually, thunder and sleet
cracked stone, spir...
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Categories: jackdaws, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Old Country Church

...Some pondered ways
to pep-up the pulpit and pew,
but disinterest and ennui won the day.
The clergy went away to get help
and never came back.

Eventually, thunder and sleet
cracked stone, spir...
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Categories: jackdaws, poetry,
Form: Free verse

A Civil War Battleground

...the field is given a name
battles are about where they disappear
the ones that walk away 
      don't know where the hell they are

                         after the mayhem
peace continues des...
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Categories: jackdaws, poetry,
Form: Free verse

A Civil War Battlefield

...the field is given a name
battles are about where they disappear
the ones that walk away 
      don't know where the hell they are

                         after the mayhem
peace continues des...
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Categories: jackdaws, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Heat Lightening

...Heat Lightening
by Michael R. Burch

Each night beneath the elms, we never knew
which lights beyond dark hills might stall, advance,
then lurch into strange headbeams tilted up
like searchlight...
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Categories: jackdaws, car, crush, desire, love,
Form: Sonnet

Permanent Strength

...Sorrow, don't be afraid.
The rainy day
was sealed with sunshine.
Don't worry, nobody can move the sunshine
except you.

Sorrow, don't be afraid.
The meaningful part of you
are never stolen by...
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Categories: jackdaws, faith,
Form: Free verse

Old English Church

...Ways to pep up the pulpit and pew,
gave way to ennui.
The clergy went away to get help
and never came back.

Eventually, thundering sky's cracked 
stone, spire, and gable;
neglect and cold win...
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Categories: jackdaws, poetry,
Form: Blank verse

Here I Am Happy and Silly By Sergey Yesenin

...Here I am happy and silly,
Garden; and windows are white,
Red swan of sunset is swimming
quietly on pond in delight.

How do you do, golden silence,
Birch puts on water its shade,
Jackdaws on ...
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Categories: jackdaws, emotions, feelings, happiness, hope,
Form: Lyric

The Ardingly Jackdaws

...THE ARDINGLY JACKDAWS
The jackdaws know from prudent aviation
As they scan the land for real estate that's prime
In touch with best of value in location
The venerable old schools pass test of tim...
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Categories: jackdaws, bird, nature,
Form: Sonnet

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