Long Murmuration Poems

Swept up into piles; everywhere 
Abouts; in collected heaps all 
Around.               
It is almost as if the drab 
Streets were strewn...

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“The Apocrypha of Familiars” 

Wings hover 
light luminescent
revelling sprites dark pearls
Corvidae shades
of a family 

highly functioning
dysfunctional plural
morphing unobserved
perceived non-unique 
spiralling into shape

more black and grey
than white spills 
from their eyes
light from their shining 
hidden away

intelligence...

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“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”



The Dilettante Diaries: Avian Notes on the Sensate Slip Stream : The Silent War in 3 Acts

(Part 1)

Starlings singing...

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So you're stuck on 15-down for the name of a barren of mules!
Groups of creatures...

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Have you ever witnessed a murmuration…that beautiful and wondrous sight…when birds all together change directions in the middle of their flight?

Seemingly they work as one…as the flock swoops left, right, lower and higher…murmuration is another...

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In uniform vision flight of angled 
depth and precision.

The breakfast being cooked outside 
on the roof, in a tree, on a bush with 
no emissions! 
The squeaks and bubbles and hisses - 
these sounds you...

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For me the world becomes a playground, 
the gray concrete becomes the forgiving mulch
beneath the swing set. The clouds start to move slower 
and they all start to look more like dinosaurs or cowboys 
when...

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ice formed in craggy spirals 
upside down and billowed
on the outstretched arms
of the sleeping winter Willow
awaiting Spring’s warm charm

misted sunlight peered through in sheer 
shafts of glistening frozen crystals 
as the melting ice dripped nature’s...

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Murmuration the bird watchers shout
Time to look up and scan about
What you will see will amaze your eyes
Looks like a moving cloud of unbelievable size

It’s Starlings flying as one as in a hunt
Open your eyes...

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At One With The Sea
Lying on the sand the wave toppled over me
Before I knew it I was dragged far out to sea
I gulped in and struggled to find much needed air
But before I ran...

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Every night the gates of delirium are torn apart
the irrational flies across the moats and walls of my defenses 
as easily and seductively as a murmuration of starlings,
and I am rescued
carried away on a magic...

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Warm blooded creatures, yet as the heat of the day retreats, we crave warmth to cosset our souls. 
While the moon controls the tides, human flesh being mostly water, becomes ensnared in the heavenly body’s...

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Your thought-balloons are filled with wild and magical freedom ~

until madness seizes your think tank 
trapping your ceaselessly chirping ideas 
within the teeth of its snapped steel-jaws 
refusing to relinquish you; lest you chew up...

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I am part of a display team
we don't practice, we all just know
to twist and turn together,
as we put on our aerobatic show.

This display is called a murmuration
the visual delight, showing no fear.
The oohs and...

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Togetherness 

Have you ever seen those beautiful sky paintings known as Fire rainbows?
You are one of them sparkling my life.

Have you ever seen those halos known as Ice crystal in the clouds?
You are one of...

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Murmuration of Starlings

     On a sudden moment in the evening sky
     A cloud that rises, swirls and swirls again
     A murmeration of Starlings...

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Spare a minute
to know about
those perky creatures
and their special features

Lifers, twitcher, tertial and lores
are nothing but the birding terms
Introduce, birding to the children,
As that would make kids pen

Their mesmerizing melodious calls 
and the raising tunes...

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The Starlings gather in flight,
A sight for longing eyes, the quartz cluster
grazes the changing skies,
Charcoal moss upon a cloudy wall,
They sweep the air as they fall into
cascading emerald tides,
Suspended in the breeze like puppets on...

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Ice formed in craggy spirals 
Upside down and billowed
on the outstretched arms
of a winter dead willow
still awaiting Spring’s charm

sunlight peered through 
the glistening frozen crystals 
as the ice-dripped nature’s tears 
falling upon the cold gripped...

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			A Gealic Song

Gneiss. 
	Ancient.
Vying with Earth herself for the Crown of Age.

In the Hebrides
Lie the Stones of Calanais
Stubborn chthonic deities of a common past
Rising up and standing against all.
You
More than a beautiful metaphor 
Of what...

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watching fascinated, the tree
overwhelmed by multitude of birds 

close together as though rehearsing moves 
for an aerial display .....
their fluorescent plumage

shining brilliantly in the near dusk light,
twittering gets louder, with  graceful move
they lift enmass...

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What a day, I'm blown away
Watch the sun disintegrate
As I lay and contemplate
Clouds of gray accumulate

Dreamt a dream, back in the day
Keep it safely locked away
Girl, it shines and never fades
Lives on love and prayers...

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So, finally it snows.
The amber glow of
Distant streetlights
Illuminating the sky
Like the embers
of a frozen fire.

The softening sound of silence
As each weightless crystal
Swirls it's own part
In the perfect dance.
What seems like chaos
Reflects the majesty
Of an Autumn...

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Soulful secrets and sorrowful sighs
silently stoke smoldering embers
of inspiration; into full flame.

A murmuration of fledgling words
rise on poetic wings; to digest
the very essence of the moment.

And as they morph into metaphors
hyperbole and prose, they inject
order...

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I followed the dust particle floating across my room;
more interesting than the flickering TV it passed,
rising rapidly from the heat the screen generated,
swirling for a heartbeat, captured in some unseen vortex.

Then, moving on, collecting a...

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