help from a myna bird
...I hear my ringtone
is that my phone?
I check, but there are no messages or calls.
Floyd, my myna bird is laughing with my Uncle Pete’s laugh.
Now he is imitating grandma Bee’s snoring noises.
He...
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Categories:
myna bird, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Chatting With A Myna Bird
...I can't think of anything more absurd
Than chatting with a haughty myna bird
He will outwit me by far
Since he's wiser than I are
He must...
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Categories:
myna bird, bird, humorous,
Form: Limerick
dragon finds a new home
...Marta’s other pets were jealous and sore
They had been replaced by one she did adore
A stupid pig! Groused the myna bird.
The dragon was angry, but said not a word.
yellow cat waited for her ch...
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Categories:
myna bird, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
dragon finds a new home
...Marta’s other pets were jealous and sore
They had been replaced by one she did adore
A stupid pig! Groused the myna bird.
The dragon was angry, but said not a word.
yellow cat waited for her ch...
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Categories:
myna bird, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
A Myna Bird Please
...A myna bird please she said with a grin.
We were all shocked. How had she wandered in?
The store had been locked by our Uncle Ben.
We sold her the bird for a dollar ten.
We were sworn to secrecy,...
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Categories:
myna bird, animal,
Form: Monorhyme
Myna Bird Solace
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There they were, in the center of
our asphalt cul-de-sac street
circled around their dead companion,
four common myna birds, holding
their own semblance of a funeral.
I slowly backed out of...
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Categories:
myna bird, bird, funeral, grief,
Form: Free verse