Long Bird family Poems

Geese, Goslings and the Bridge

Sometimes, when you least expect it, Mother Nature makes a u-turn and draws you into the ridiculous.  Such was the time recently as I was returning from a friend’s home...

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As I walked through the forest,                             ...

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Heretofore stuffing said scandalous fête
worst day of year turkeys do hate
though vegan lifestyle
sweeping culinary tables of late
though me and the missus
still omnivorous foods sate

palates sprinkled (of course
while mouths full with borscht,
and eyes wide shut)
with garbled...

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It was a beautiful day for a picnic in the park,
We all thought we would stay there until dark.

Just enjoying the peace of a late summer bliss,
Like a departing lover engages you with a kiss!

We...

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Most humans realize that the animal kingdom, unlike us, proceeds, reacts, and responds instinctively.  It's as if there's a built-in preprogrammed computer device that controls their activities.  Also, perhaps unlike us, they are...

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Ode to Harris

So they showed you
the politics of poetics
showed you how to sculpt
quotations
as if discreetly yours

sure-e-e... 

they told you of your godhood
at Harvard
but they crucified you at Rowan Tree
fourteen light stained pages
4.95


6-15-00

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Watching years go by
like...

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See the birds, migrating to long distance                            ...

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Afternoons the sky shuts down around the swamp's warning tapes
propped up with restoration piping and dirt leak fencing.
We’re fleeing toward the wild, seeking the names and shapes, 
the same way the Cedar Waxwing flit and...

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See the birds, migrating to long distance                            ...

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Angular sunlight danced on the placid waters of the steel-gray  lake. Those waters damned up upon picturesque farm are for cattle and their plentiful young calves to drink. Not only one such farm along...

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Cassius Crow

Cassius Crow was a big old bird
with shiny feathers, long and black.
his family members, near and dear
jawed at each other - clackity clack.

Cassius' flock nested in a wood
full of pine from old Monterey
and as...

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Missing that Shinning Sea
 
Often starring at ocean waves,
just blocks from its sea gulls and sandy shores.

Daily visits never grew old; the water was always cold.
And the gulls fly low, enjoying their favorite spots.

Arrested with...

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Antithesis of avian beauty
Monstrosity of the bird family
Head and neck very hideous looking 
In dull black wrinkled up unfeathered skin

Exposed decaying animal matter
Can produce unhealthy bacteria
That can endanger other life species
Threatening them with illness and...

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Perhaps they mourn and long for a life mate,
one that does not end with merely a few dates.
One commandment says not to witness falsely or lie.
For that reason, I cannot say that doves really cry.

So,...

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Having not done the things I wanted to do
and the things I've done not being what I wanted to do
I sit here looking at lichen on the north side of trees.

Black-capped chickadees
cheerful and truthful expression
grouped...

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She sits there on a branch alone,
Along comes another, swish down with the swipe of his wing,
She fly’s quickly with a vengeance, swish through the branches,
To another tree she goes, mating season has come,
He sits...

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Turning and dipping in graceful, acrobatic flight,
my spirit soars against a sky brilliantly blue;
from these heights, I view life in its completeness,
its complex boundaries and limitations sharply defined.
I maintain my composure, calm and unruffled by...

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national bird of 
Trinidad and Tobago
Caribbean Isle

the scarlet ibis
it is a tropical bird
bright red in color

it has a long neck
and it's bill is long and curved
feathers are black tipped

feet are slightly webbed
it's legs are long...

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The Stellaluna story, in verse.*

Hanging upside down
on a tiny tree limb,
she sleeps in daylight
with wings folded in.

No feathers on this one;
just fur, soft as down.
With wings spread wide,
she searches the ground.

Nocturnal, she forages
to assuage her...

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A baby bird fell from a tree
Right in front of mini-me,
He tried to fly but every lift
He fell back down and ran quite swift.

The mother of the baby bird
Fed it’s beak upon the earth,
Guiding it...

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Pencils, pens, crayons, and markers
Makes me
An artist of the highest degree.
I can make the neatest tree
With a bird family using it as a new addressee.  
 It will have all sorts of flowers around...

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Cared for by mummy and daddy bird on the ground
Next step for baby bird was to fly heaven bound 
"Spread your wings" mummy bird gently said 
Baby bird listened but scratched his head 

"I can't...

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I wish that these six relatives could come live with me;
Like cousin Kenny he,  is so very funny and friendly; 
And I dream like sister Carliss she's always so positive;
I am an admired my...

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I wish I was a mockingbird
perched high up in a tree.
My trills by all would soon be heard;
You’d come away with me.

We’d soar up high above the lands,
way up among the clouds.
Without a care for...

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Dear Robin, please leave
This is a tree of despair.
Do not seek to create a family there.
Its branches are that of sorrow adorned with leaves of tears.
Lurking near, is a cat ready to foil your loving...

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