Dream Owl Poems

Her wild barn owl fantasy started in the middle of the night
But while she was dreaming, two boys came into sight
One was carrying a teddy...

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The barn is hollowed by time,
greased by phantom tractor engines.
A rusting spade and shotgun,
laid-up in the shadowy bygone.
A dusty hayloft full of owl songs.

The mice...

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The Lion doesn't sleep tonight

What will you turn out to be 
There is always that monster in your dream
It knows you more than you know
It's...

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Wyandotte princess sent her favored owl out to the camps
she trusted his council, he would come back with a plan
a link between her ancestors and...

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Catcher of owl dreams
A princess of the best kind, it seems

Flinging fowls’ ideas in the atmosphere
Keeping only a few to glance at quite near

Watching them...

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There was an owl that lived in a tree behind his grandma’s house who, during the day, stayed our of sight…but who, when he slept...

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mystical moonlight
voiceless lullaby of stream
white owl dreams awake







17th October 2021
5-7-5 count

Sponsor	Robert James Liguori
Contest Name	Owl Haiku...

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The wise old owl said,                    ...

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Red Eastern Screech Owl



Ginger moonlighter, striated 
in cinnamon spice and cream,
beautifies the stage with backdrop
of an ebony-stream horizon.
He perches alone 
like a sculpture carved from...

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I bolt upright, how rudely I awaken!
This dream I had; bizarre, implausible.
I try remaining calm, but badly shaken,
Returning now to sleep - impossible.

This dream I...

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Finally to Burn: Icarus, Resurrected
by Michael R. Burch

Athena takes me
sometimes by the hand

and we go levitating
through strange Dreamlands

where Apollo sleeps
in his dark forgetting

and Passion seems
like...

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We built ourselves a dream and sent it high into a blue sky,
Watched as the gods crushed it between their thighs-
cried as they threw it...

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owl calls to her psyche
dreaming interferes
dendrite highways closed

breathing is a ruse
soul is in cosmos
hooting is unheard

astral travel
dusts away all semblance of
doom 

body on auto pilot
until...

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The Owl And The Pussy Cat By Edward Lear,
He, this poet was in top gear.
Exciting, extraordinary excellent read,
Oh the Owl and the Pussy Cat the...

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I feel asleep
On the wind
It took me to places
High and lofty
Amongst the clouds
And cool high air
Where water is but
Droplets of mist
I touched the stars
And kissed...

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