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Ornithologists Poems - Poems about Ornithologists

Junco

...Junco	

Just another bird you say
Juxtaposed to other birds unfair
Jettison your prejudices
Join with other ornithologists
Judging the Junco on its own merits
Jubilantly this little bird thriv...

Categories: ornithologists, bird,
Form: Pleiades

Gemini Garden

..."Birds care not for whom they sing" - Silent One

For infants who feel the art of hearing for the first time...
For kids who don't distinguish between a rhyme and a chime...
For children growing ...

Categories: ornithologists, bird, life, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Harbingers of Spring

...robin zugunruhe
migratory restlessness—
singing their way north







Robin Image credit:  Michael Lamarche

Graphic image by Mark Toney using Canva Pro

“Robins are feeling restless. ...

Categories: ornithologists, bird, seasons, spring,
Form: Haiku

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Dare I Wish

...From each according to his ability
gains little traction in a world
where ability is so obviously diminished
just take an honest look around you
sound bites are no longer protection
against an e...

Categories: ornithologists, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

Murder of Crows

...Murder of crows
Murder of crows
Ornithologists hate it
Wanting to rename it

Murder of crows
Murder of crows
The black scavengers earned it
Not caring in the least

Murder of crows
Murder ...

Categories: ornithologists, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

A Cultural Anomaly -- Prose-Poetry

...They were Hollywood farmed; the girls, the pink and blond feathers-
shoes on their heads, but when they began to give birth to human 
chickens there was a national outcry. Cops cordoned off each ho...

Categories: ornithologists, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Haiku - Winters Tribulations

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HAIKU - WINTERS TRIBULATIONS

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bold... the jenny wren
brazenly makes itself heard
twelve grams of pleasure
~~~
the starling mimics
its feathers dusted heaven
iridesce...

Categories: ornithologists, nature, winter,
Form: Haiku

Ists - Never Mind the Ologies

...ISTS - NEVER MIND THE OLOGIES

agriculturists, working the land for sustenance
horticulturists cultivation of a magic garden flower
bio-cultureists landscape ecology, how to financ...

Categories: ornithologists, science,
Form: Lento

The Climate Changed

...The Climate Changed
 
"You were the sun
Once I was perihelion
Now you are aphelion!"
Sang the perihelion of planet earth
In low baritones
 
What is the perihelion of planet earth to do now?
...

Categories: ornithologists, anger, anxiety, culture, future,
Form: Narrative

Bird Watching

...I watched a fragile bird today 
painted black and white and gray
Prancing all about me 
as if to dance and play.

He hopped around the grassy grounds
in hopes of breakfast beetles 
To give him streng...

Categories: ornithologists, beauty, nature, me, bird,
Form: Rhyme

The Annual Turkey Massacre

...
*****sapiens is what is me.
I am so happy I am not a turkey.
I am not taxonomically classified in a family
known to ornithologists as Melogracidae.
With a sauce made from the cranberry,
thes...

Categories: ornithologists, holiday,
Form: Rhyme