Long Bird of night Poems

Initiated by a fairy tale
of elf hobgoblins who lived in a dale

Jack Robbins stayed alert throughout the night
Sat looking through his window by moonlight

He saw his swing hanging from the oak tree
Without a breath of...

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FURUHI, A LAMENT 
(Based on a poem by a Japanese poet of the seventh century, Yamanoe Okura)

What in all the world is most desired?
The precious ores, the seven precious stones?
Yet what are these to one
whom...

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Cheering you to start this day 
So, hey 
I have a poem to portray
that you are the one I need everyday 

Feb 17th it is, 
 The day i am not an early bird at...

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I am keeper of the midnight clock
A watchful eye, when darkness peaks
With one eye closed to mock your sleep,
The other eye revolves to keep
the world in check 'till morning breaks

They often wonder where I hide
when...

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The rhythms of the night
Sounds of a dark symphony
A mysterious cacophony
Sends chill up and down the spine
Shadows chase the light of a full moon
Across meadow and forest green
No stranger to nocturnal life
Where life plays it’s...

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Please don’t ruffle my feathers
It is very rude when you stare
I have the most sensitive hearing
And I know you are lurking there

I mainly venture out at night
For I really am quite shy
Many people don’t even...

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My Window

From my window I can splendidly see
The first rays of the sun so soft ,
Striking the leaves of the stately tree
And the feathers of the bird that sails aloft;

I see cows grazing on the...

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He sits outside my window
The loudest thing I've ever heard
He keeps me awake all night long
I'm gonna kill that mockingbird

He even mimics my wife snoring
He's a mockingbird you see
My wife's half deaf, she can't hear...

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Unwind.

As a tiring day
Unwinds
And goes to rest
Blue skies turn to grey
Closing the lid
On natures bountiful
Treasure chest

Blackbird on high
Bids farewell
With it’s sweet
Retiring lament
The wild daffodil
Closes delicate its petals and folds
Now the day is spent 
And the...

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As dusk hours darken the skies ever later
Crepuscular creatures return
Strisores awaken the heathland
As the heat of the day still rises from the earth. 

Quietness blankets the world in black
So silent I hear only noise
Yet over...

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You float and soar the skies
riding the winds thermals
vast oceans you travel
majestic and mysterious

Thought by mariners of old
to be a harbinger of death
the sight of you a sign of doom
a bird bringing ill fate

How could...

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Sieved stardust of wonder fell
                from heavens above
            ...

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Soprano's Answer

I'm benumbed by the musical shooting arrow
Carrying magical notes of a soprano
Its light dazzles
And crackles
On the lake's wind washed surface in circles

I stand beneath heaven's beam
Bathed in its pure sprinkling gleam
I hold on to...

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In brooding dusk they gather from the East
Arrive in twos and threes upon the trees.
Autumn beeches, now devoid of leaves,
Begin to darken as the branches heave
And teem with animated rooks.

And jackdaws too, all jockeying for...

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Poems of the Early Bird ~ Night Owl

                         Two different birds...

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When sun sets and the deepening shadows creep
When most birds go to roost under the canopy of the woods
It is then I start my nocturnal odyssey,
Flying through still air on pinions, foraging food.

I have a...

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Hark! What beautiful singing I hear!
Songbird in a tree so near.
How can you sing there in the dark?
Are you a robin or a meadowlark?

Sweet little songbird with no home,
Sweetly, sweetly, sing your song.
Sing it, sing...

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This is the kind of creature that goes out into the night to steal bricks to build its' niche.
It more than crosses a courtesy line. Happens more in  the winter;other seasons just fly by.
Swift...

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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 this little bird
as it sips the last of nectar
before darkness...

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Knowledge and wisdom are quite important, 
They are like the sun that shines so radiant; 
The brilliance is like a gold that glitters, 
Unceasingly worked by toiling teachers.

Gain understanding to see in the dark, 
Having...

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It was a brisk and clear moonlit night
The moon was out, full and shining bright
Raptor sounds echoed of shrills and shrieks
As the river danced with tiny white peaks

Barren Trees glistened with frosty limbs
Nighttime sounds sing...

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O, songless bird, speak thine plight to thee!
I awoke to hear thine tears in the deepest pit of thy slumber,
My songless bird, the night has stolen thine heav'nly ballad,
And given thee a life of sorrow,
Fly...

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Fault


Remembering you is not my fault but loosing you is my fault 

Making love is not my fault but fighting with self to foRrgot you is my fault 

That smile that eyes that lips which...

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Moonlight filters through the tree limbs
Leaving silhouettes of night phenomena
Just above the curb of the road there hymns
The guffawing of a nocturnal feathered fauna

Wearing a mask of colorful plumage
With eyes so round and bright they...

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Cardinals sang on the snowy branches,
So scarlet against the dark black night,
As the trees performed ghostly dances,
When the red planet Mars was in sight.

So scarlet against the dark black night,
The birds looked lovely under the...

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