Long Rufous Poems

Casting a glance past my shoulder as Chopin’s Berceuse opens into the air
            light diffuses across the room with its Autumn shadow
 
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I can fly backwards and change directions instantly, and sometimes I can fly upside down. I am the only bird that can sustain long term hovering, and I remember every flower I ever visited. I...

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Somewhere between the Poseidon and Azure
Is his double shaded blue that always allures;
Between the lush and chrome, green hues
That glow in layers of velvet like necklace;
With rufous brown tail feathers and long neck
With strong twig...

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Tender is the night the moon does gently sway,
reflections from your eyes, gives one a taste of
your ways.
Dancing leaves, the headlights ensnare
a rufous finale, as yet another generation gives
way to the new.
Approaching fog gives one...

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OCTOBER PANTOUM


Rufous luster of Autumn on October allures assures romance under azure sky. 
         
 Celtic seasonal festival Samhain proclaims completion of harvest in plenitude.
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Shades of rufous and crimson oared between the eyes and the mind,
Vestured the feelings that rip the heart as a nagging memory
Overshadowing the pilgrim’s intentions, desires, and dreams.
The petite wench, this strumpet, harlot may I...

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SERENITY 
        
          Hitting hot hammer scorching Sun shines up high.
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IN AUTUMN’S EVES

     With closed eyes in Autumn’s eves of gold
     My muse flows with glory of auburn Autumn.
     I feel mild Autumn...

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Cindy my infamous old cat,
Often brings me part of a rat.

Sometimes a bird leg she brings.
Really, what can I do with those things?

Now she brought part of a squirrel.
I guess somehow he had his last...

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Show me what you see each day 
Through your sparkling eyes of greens and browns
Do you see the smiles, the tears and frowns
On children's faces as they play
Can you see beyond to the lilac heathers
to...

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For the first time ever,
a Cardinal's nest lay cleverly hidden
in a juncture of two branches
of the red rose climber
on the south wall of our garage.

Over the years, we'd watched with pleasure
as House Finches, Eastern Phoebe,
Bluebirds,...

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Orioles, blue jays, blackbirds, and red robins all sing
robustly to tangelo sun, as meadows and woods ring.
All through spring and summer gloss, as roses glisten,
Nature's noonday, jade heartbeats, cause all to listen!
Glittering gold on green...

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An eagle sits in the cedar,
Another is soaring nearby.
If he hadn't called I'd have missed them.
I just wouldn't look that high.

A rufous towhee is searching
For seed that's been spilled on the ground.
A refilled feeder awaits...

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The Kookaburra, this terrestrial Kingfisher like bird
With it's onomatopoeic call, laughter in it's world
They inhabit arid savanna's and humid forests so lush
Also suburban to residential, as all around them humans rush

These beautiful birds are sexually...

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The Missus is angry, Rufous told his wife.
Are you sure? She sounds like that a lot.
Her husband just flew off with the babysitter.
That young thing! What? His wife was outraged.

I think so.
The wife grabbed the...

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He writes, pouring down his words of glory
Disclose the echoes of his wondrous dream
Down into his soul her untold story 
Boundless desire; her tears, her eyes gleam.

With strokes of rufous and cherry and wine
Erasing the...

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My Little Sparrow

Oh Little Sparrow
How come you here?
Your rufous neck
Seems so cute
And your white little cheeks
Are too small to hold a seed
And a bushy black bil
With conical structure
Seems so great
As its a visual treat..

Why don't...

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March on, April, and may
irises counterpose
raring purples yellow
As gray clouds in sun dance
Gentling storms rain mellow…

March on, April, and may
endearing pinks breezy
move magic carpet rides
In petals morphed to leaves
Rufous plum branches hide…

March on, April, and...

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