Osprey Poems - Poems about Osprey

In a turning acre the high dark silhouette of a river-hawk. Wings sharply-etched, now it dips, and light reveals each fine feather as a clear signature. I looked and saw the carving flame of its life branded, and stamped indelible. A bolt of breath, a hawkish tinder clearly reflected on the mirror-mere. And if the life of this world is born of fire, then this morning as I looked over my...

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an osprey swoops down plunges talons into creek... flies up with small fish Date written: 03/31/2021...

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OSPREY On skies, you glared predator-proud talons and beak curved so sharp as narrow-vision> focusing on doubling plenty to millions... Prey abounded, you soared, till rivers faded to an unseen creep richly sipping of bounties seeping DDT, while in your high tower eagles hawked tainted by death unaccounted, until eggs fragile yielded cracks in their oval, speed-plummeting to cries of:...

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Yellowstone Osprey dwells in a rock cathedral sacred in her flight administers sacraments to her watchers far below ...

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Yellow orbs regard us from a gray anvil head as still as stone. It’s a broken wing rescue. We keep releasing it, but it comes back. The ranger looks bemused, the caged raptor swivels its focus as if reading sounds. We took him to a lake 50 miles away, by evening he was back. If I were that hawk I would rest...

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Katie Osprey looked up from the ground And she knew this was no way to end a night on the town “Why did you dump me onto the Garden floor” Which made her four-legged love come back from the in-gate door You see she was a show jumper in a big event On a major stage...

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I ventured out one day to bird watch in the woods I saw a new path to take near the tree where I stood I walked for several miles and could smell fragrant flowers Not sure how far I have gone but I’ve walked for hours I could smell forest moss and hear faint sounds of running water I followed...

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Wolf sneaks up on finch. Grabs her in his canines. Osprey avenges finch. Snatches a hare from the glade. You fool, wolf howls, that hare meant nothing to me. Osprey swallows last bit of meat, says, Wasn’t that your dinner for tomorrow? Obviously, she was something to you. Wolf and osprey tango. Blood flies like...

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ the soaring osprey... optimistic... spots its prey a hungry pike strikes... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Inspired by Tom Cunningham...

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Port wing folds Steep spiral toward the fiery water below Fish dart in all directions She springs upward faster than light Into the blinding sun She circles the brilliant scene One mind One muscle Tail and wings tucked She stops Necessity become pleasure This is evolution Her dark eyes pierce the water below Bending the scene to her will She flips and drops Propelled by will She pierces the water Then rises Water...

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The majestic osprey swooped down for a trout. My husband could only shake his fist and shout! The poor osprey was startled and fled, But not before dropping the trout on his head!...

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Wide wings with dark fingery tips Fan tail of duplicate feathers From beneath: a small white bird, wearing a glamorous white-grey-brown coat A black moon sits in the middle of staring round yellow eyes It descends – gliding down towards the still lake Its claws are moved in front, when its reflection can be seen more clearly A tidy belly...

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gliding high on wing he surveys still water - osprey swoops for kill...

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