Long Finch Poems
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Mockingbird - Crown of Sonnets
#1
"It is a sin to kill a Mockingbird.
While playing games with rocks or guns, defray,
them, please, ...shoot old tin cans. Each whispered song
from Mockingbirds, can heal the wounds of the day"
Virtues are...
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Categories:
finch, children, discrimination, integrity, prejudice,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
To Kill a Mockingbird: the Unsung Heroes
To Kill a Mockingbird is both a young girl’s coming-of-age story and a more nebulous production about the reasons and consequences of bigotry and discrimination, examining how good and evil can coexist within a particular...
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Categories:
finch, angst, character, muse,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Easter Bird
The Sinai Rose finch, oblivious to the commotion in the nearby city, busily gathered dry grass and floral fodder to repair her nest, disturbed by a human behemoth, snatching the thorny brambles which hid the...
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Categories:
finch, bird, easter, nature,
Form:
Prose
Eureka
I belonged to a family of farmers, we had farmed for generations;
And we were true to our land, as blooms loyal to sweet sensations.
I knew the fierce satisfaction, only derived from working the land;
And sometimes...
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Categories:
finch, family, fantasy, farm, happiness, nature, rain, sunshine,
Form:
Couplet
With a Cat Lying On My Lap
with a cat lying on my lap
a sough whispers in the trees
as a summer day begins fading
the tiger lilies below bend as if trumpeting
a musical for ears yet to come into existence
evaporating the din...
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Categories:
finch, introspection, pets, philosophy, science,
Form:
Free verse
Beautiful Firetail Finch
Looking through the three-eighth gauge, at zebra's, stars and plumhead.
Listening to the expert in the trade and take in what he said.
I went home and scanned through pages of books and magazine,
perusing photographs of aviary...
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Categories:
finch, bird, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Evensong
I can't
Now that that name
Has dominated my life,
An evensong with
Everlasting lyric
That at times when I may
Be still
I can recite through memory.
It is yet still new to me.
So many are the fresh syllables
That lay undiscovered...
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Categories:
finch, love, nostalgia, may,
Form:
Free verse
One Square Mile
In one square mile, northeast of Noojee,
there are seven birds that I often get to see
as I walk on the tracks in pristine forestry,
in one square mile, northeast of Noojee.
A Whipbird crack through ti-tree scrub,
a...
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Categories:
finch, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
The Former Double Life of Matthew Scott Harris
The (former) Double Life Of Matthew Scott Harris
Dove finch he following iniquitous
licentious, lecherous longing
extinguished quite
some years ago,
when eldest daughter
...
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Categories:
finch, grief, hurt, meaningful, memory, pain, psychological, wife,
Form:
Narrative
Following Sandra In New Orleans
Heaviness painfully throbbed your beating heart,
as the world could not understand it
and could never see it.
With your slurred words
and tired, dilated eyes,
I smiled, knowing you were not from here,
watching you drenched in...
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Categories:
finch, abuse, christmas, conflict, death, deep, drink, sin,
Form:
Lyric
The Stranger Man 3
THE STRANGER MAN (3)
But let life live its life and I mine.
I ease myself of all worries
And drift where I may such as liberal
As a wind and unheeding to the obstruction
Where of the fate of...
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Categories:
finch, adventure, feelings, freedom, life, love, philosophy, vanity,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Whispers of Lace
Whispers of Lace
Arms folded; He sits. A grandfather clock ticks it's way to a song, in a lonely
room.
It had taken ten years and thirty-five days to get to this place. ...
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Categories:
finch, adventure, bereavement, cry, heaven,
Form:
Narrative
The Flames of New Emotions
The Flames of New Emotions
I. Reminisce
I am Grand Master Dragon
This new wave feels different from the others.
It is quite an odd feeling.
Being calm as always, I wonder why do I feel...
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Categories:
finch, desire, emotions, friendship,
Form:
Blank verse
Mistaken Steps of Lost Array
Mistaken steps of lost array
Of broken branch and multi-colored stone façade
the pathway steals my outward glance
Winding through the cottage hills
like kite string freed by a strong wind, it spills
Patterns shadow in abstract array
through barbed...
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Categories:
finch, loneliness, love,
Form:
Free verse
Soul Stance River - 6
Back on the river, forward into the howl of the unknown,
for three days Sergeant Floyd has been crippled by excruciating pain in his abdomen,
as the only man here trained in internal medical matters...
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Categories:
finch, adventure,
Form:
Epic
Empty Feeders
The feeders were empty, dejected, forlorn.
The lady who filled them had suddenly gone.
Her time here now ended, she wakened no more:
Gone from her gardens, departed her door.
This little much mattered to birds on the...
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Categories:
finch, bird, environment, january, nature, weather, winter,
Form:
Narrative
Like a Girl
I was playing catch in my backyard with my father
You were the boy across the street that didn’t know how to flirt
So you settled for a passive agressive ‘You throw like a girl!’
When the ball...
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Categories:
finch, girl, high school, inspirational,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Has Spring Sprung
Can't seem to get off to sleep tonight, thoughts buzzing around my old head,
It's dark and quiet, the cat has gone out and the street lights have gone out too,
The odd car passes by maybe...
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Categories:
finch, nature, old, spring, winter, dark, dark, green,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Has Spring Sprung
Can't seem to get off to sleep tonight, thoughts buzzing around my old head,
It's dark and quiet, the cat has gone out and the street lights have gone out too,
The odd car passes by maybe...
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Categories:
finch, nature, old, spring, winter, dark, dark, green,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Goldfinch
The finch dances merry, weaving feathers into music
That spills from overeager beaks and drips light onto slick wings
Which beat in time with the song, fluttering, flittering,
Finding life in the sky and where the...
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Categories:
finch, bird,
Form:
Free verse
Irreverent Hotheaded Grinch
(Any resemblance between said title,
as told tummy by ya finch,
and commander in chief,...
not accidental, nor a cinch
buttock hum posed on behalf
of these bottom ming out
fifty states, plus Puerto Rico inch
ching, donning, and clamoring
desperately for fluffin...
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Categories:
finch, age, allegory, allusion, america, analogy, care, conflict,
Form:
Free verse
Fruiting Life
-
I planted two black current stumps of un-remarkable descript on the packet.
An all wirery and stringy affair well dug in and enriched
I expected juicy black currents ! Vitamin packed.
I could not imagine...
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Categories:
finch, naturefruit, cancer,
Form:
I do not know?
The One That Got Away - Silence of What Ifs
If a poet falls in love with you
you will live forever.
Atticus Finch - To kill a mockingbird.
In the midst of conundrums, of 'what ifs.'
I dislike the ocean,
its bitter saltiness, brings no joy.
Perched safely, upon the...
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Categories:
finch, loss, love, youth,
Form:
Free verse
MY Strength
I have seen your hands all over it threw times of ups and downs and dissy merry go rounds You wore all in working it out for my good threw my failers and constent battles...
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Categories:
finch, age, angel, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
Sibling Soft Spot
Elder sister initiated the process always,
I could see her, like a finch or sparrow, restless for days;
Hay she collected; prepared pretty painted paper rocks,
To cover up the cattle shed made brick-like hard-board blocks;
Handpicked grass and...
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Categories:
finch, christmas,
Form:
Rhyme