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Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds Ii
Poems about Flight, Flying, and Birds



Flying
by Michael R. Burch

I shall rise
and try the bloody wings of thought
ten thousand times
before I fly...

and then I'll sleep
and waste ten thousand nights
before I dream;

but when at last...
I soar the...

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Categories: cormorant, animal, bird, flying, nature,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Pages


"The Pages"

Missing all those years
like a page you could turn, 
a book you could throw casually aside, 
to be eternally forgotten in electric shady libraries;
at some point you turned around, 
and remembered, what you long...

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Categories: cormorant, i am, love,
Form: Free verse
Matsuo Basho New Haiku Translations
Matsuo Basho New Haiku Translations

Air ballet:
twin butterflies, twice white,
meet, match & mate
—Matsuo Basho, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch 

Denied transformation
into a butterfly,
autumn worsens for the worm
—Matsuo Basho, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch 

Dusk-gliding...

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Categories: cormorant, animal, death, earth, life, nature, philosophy, world,
Form: Haiku
Zen Death Haiku V
ZEN DEATH HAIKU V

These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku. 

A cat in heat
can't catch a mouse? —
pathetic! 
—Kinpu, loose translation by Michael R. Burch

It's getting to the point
of sucking on...

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Categories: cormorant, age, analogy, angst, animal, anxiety,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Our Peach
In a moment of magic I once gave her a juicy innocent peach

Not yet knowing that she harboured a sweet nascent dream

In which as a youngster she knew that she would marry the one

Who handed...

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Categories: cormorant, beach,
Form: Free verse



By the Water's Edge
I sit by the waters edge
Sitting on the border of a concrete ledge
Surrounded by miss-shaped rocks
Formed by the years of repeated water knocks

I throw a line in the water
As a man sits next to me...

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Categories: cormorant, animals, daughter, nature, passion, time, beautiful, rain,
Form: Rhyme
The Mistaken Who Mistook
No citadel’s too tall for mortals like you.
Even acclivity of mounts fear of bipeds like you.
Adam’s ale in its ampleness has lost its meaning.
And only with your condonance, 
do the flowers un-bud and birds do...

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Categories: cormorant, angst, natural disasters, nature, peace,
Form: I do not know?
She Comes, Part One
For all the night she trod the furrowed earth
As she has walked all winter in her wake
In seeking for the child she brought to birth
The maiden bride whom Hades chose to take


The gibbous moon is...

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Categories: cormorant, england, magic, mother daughter, mythology, nature, seasons,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Pigeon Told
A bird’s eye view 
conversation overheard in a park 
somewhere near you


Hey, Ori ... what’s up?

Nothing much, Marque.
Just flying low, bro.

Big Ollie, the Ruby Cleaners rooftop dove,
shared some bad popcorn news.

Oh, yeah. What’s the latest...

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Categories: cormorant, allegory, funny, humor, perspective,
Form: Light Verse
Diaries From Distant Shores I
PART I.

I.
each night...
I think about the moment when we'll vanish 
on the doormat of an empty house
because I know some day they will come - 
the malignant conquistadors and their moon colored hounds
when this century...

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Categories: cormorant, lost love, ocean, pain, sea, symbolism,
Form: Epic
Daybreak 2
Daybreak 2
                 Frank Halliwell
At first light every morning 
And before  dusk  every night,
All looking for a handout,
And...

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Categories: cormorant, world,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member New Horizons
I teeter on the brink of possibility. 
The sun on the new horizon glistens 
its rays on the undulating sea of change. 

I gaze a while, drifting with a squawking gull, 
or diving with a...

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Categories: cormorant, happinesssea, sea, sun,
Form: Free verse
A Haiku Anthology 03-31-2018
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blemished sky erupts
a waterfall... a  river
the cormorant dived

the mile high eagle
hunting... not gone unnoticed
meercats wary

heavy rain... torrents
one litre... one kilo...
man will make  you pay

wildflower meadow
trampled... flattened by children
educate them now

take my hand... nature
I...

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Categories: cormorant, nature,
Form: Haiku
grist for the mill
O pure hearts, never forget my words,
When you listen to this pretentious, you give him
grain to be milled,
When you look at this fool, you give him
Grist for the mill.

Thus is the world made, of morality...

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Categories: cormorant, 9th grade, appreciation, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
An Hour At the Beach
Driftwood benches stretch along the shoreline as far as the eye can see


While purple and green kelp stain the wet sand like messy 
brush strokes a child would make


Amongst the rocks and tide pools, a...

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Categories: cormorant, faith, imagination, introspection, nature, life, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In Loving Memory Of Kerwin Rae
(Motivational Speaker, died Oct 18, 2024 at the age of 49, father of two ) 


In fields of gold I dare to go, where never growing old I row and row,   
never farther...

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Categories: cormorant, analogy, death, devotion,
Form: Free verse
company and loneliness
Too much company 
Kill the company,
What am I going to think?
About those curious people?
What am I going to think? 
Why sailors are celebrating.

Too much solitude,
Kill the solitude,
What am I going to think?
Of the inert stone,
What...

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Categories: cormorant, appreciation, care, solitude,
Form: Free verse
Early Morning In Walvis Bay
Hand in hand with the breaking pink light of dawn, 
A light east breeze dances on tiptoes upon the water’s surface. 
I stand on the wooden deck, looking out onto the quiet bay,
Scattered boats gently...

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Categories: cormorant, places, sea, light, bird, bird, light,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member analogy allergy
I’m not one but a whisper -
          I’m nothing ‘cept a sham
              ...

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Categories: cormorant, analogy, introspection, poems, poetry, wisdom, writing,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Nor'Easter
The waves dash themselves
Against the rocks,
Sending geysers of spray
High over the seawall,
Half drowning the cars
That are creeping slowly
Through the sandy lakes
Forming on the road.
The wind screams
And pounds its fists in a
Tantrum on car windows.
The angry...

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Categories: cormorant, imagery, storm,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Witness Statement
As I watched,
like a lion with its prey
the wave growled and snarled
while crouching, preparing to pounce.
Rushing up the sloping shingle beach,
it reached out and dragged pebbles
down into its lair.

I heard
the rasping raking of the beach...

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Categories: cormorant, sea,
Form: Free verse
Birke/Birch/Abedul -Wildgänse/Wild Geese/Gansos Salvajes - Kormoran/Cormorant/Cormorán
Birke/Birch/Abedul

Im  sanften  Abendlicht
Wehen die Blätter der Birke
Goldfähnchen im Wind 



In soft evening light
The leaves of the birch flutter
Golden banners in the wind 



En suave luz de la tarde
Ondean las hojas del abedul
Banderitas de...

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Categories: cormorant, nature
Form: Haiku
Wavelets On the Pool
Tiny wavelets on the pool today,  a gentle
breeze and raindrops fall with a rhythmic
pitter patter. The ducks and wildfowl pay
no heed, around the sedge bob and feed. 
The Heron standing as if frozen, his
cunning...

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Categories: cormorant, naturewater, water,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Belonging
Summer fog.
The air thick and warm
with a closeness gathering in
the early morning as if all
that it shrouds share
a common breath.

Everything holds together,
birds, water, the pebbled shoreline,
as a cormorant dives
downwards through the still, 
its underwater wings...

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Categories: cormorant, morning, summer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member First For the Year:
I got my first duck feather today,
First one for the season of spring,
Standing up proudly, I couldn't walk away,
To me, feathers are gifts, straight from the wing.

I watched as the turtles all swam about,
And saw...

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© White Wolf  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cormorant, bird, nature, tree,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things