Pelican Poems - Poems about Pelican

A PELICAN IN THE FOG

I have mentioned this before…yes, it’s something many of you have heard…
without my glasses…when I look around…my vision is quite blurred.

I suppose that’s why in life…I love the color grey…
walking in the fog…and paintings by Monet.

Walking on the beach the other morning…they sky changed from blue to grey
and when the fog settled over us it

Pirate Captain Suspects Pelican Pete

There are pelican prints on this map the suspicious sea captain said.
We all denied seeing a fowl using his desk, for we wanted our heads.
He had a cutlass and was not afraid to use it on any of us.
I know you know about Peter, he said. He’s an ornery cuss!

Peter the Pelican is actually trying

Thankful For the Pelican and Ogden

May we be blessed to acknowledge all the wonders in our life
that have, for us, thus far accrued…
and to begin each day with a word of thanks…
and thoughts of gratitude.

Today I an thankful for the pelican
a bird of whom I have always been somewhat smitten 
and Ogden Nash for writing a poem much better 
than

Pelican

sacrificial blood  
how long could it lively count? 
world ponders the truth


12 April 2022

Child To Pelican

How is the water? Asked the cute little one in the hat.
The pelican did not know what to answer to that.
It was full of fish, and tasty, but was it hot or cold?
He listened for other clues, a wise pelican, old.

The Pious Pelican

Myth of the peculiar pelican
Whose bill bloodies its feathery breast
Feeding blood to the chicks in its nest
Ancient acts ever evangelic
Sole sacrifice for the pelican
Whose beak speaks more than a relic can






36 Words  6 Lines  Light Verse
Pelicans appear in Christian iconography
as symbols to verify Christ's self-sacrifice.
Attributions to Dixon Lanier Merritt
(often mistakenly credited to Ogden

The Pelican of the Endure

The Pelican of the Endure

I sat down to rest on the longest day on a shallow shore
Pressed, the wind my face 
I counted the waves that lapped the minutes away
Till the grinding tide consumed the day, shadow ate the sun
Woe unto the shadow fair
A crimson horizon hangs on the edge of sight
As bright bits of

Pelican Clout

iron dome roost
kiln bruise
spoilt rattle crease

Pelican Bay

They came and arrested me.
Crime of passion they say.
Now, I'm doin' life at Pelican Bay,
never gonna see another free day.
She cheated and lied
then she died, while sayin'
she never loved me. 
I'll live with the pain of the crime,
every minute of my time,
at Pelican Bay.

Her Favorite Angel

Her mom died when she was young…and though she survived the ordeal
she still misses her when she remembers her…
some wounds will never heal.

She remembers how her mom loved pelicans…how they soared on the breeze like a kite…
How she loved all kinds of pelicans…
but her favorite ones were white.

And when she walks along the surf…when the

Pelican Pete

A pelican called Pete,
Whom tuna, would not eat;
Flew down to hot sand,
Some sand crabs to land,
Now Pete has some very blistered feet!

Pelican Soup

Pelican Soup

I will not partake of your Pelican Soup,
Not even a drop or a very small scoop.
This culinary dish is quite absurd,
A consommé of a large billed bird.

The Old Pelican of Sunny Isles

Old pelican
Perched atop
A railing at the end
Of Sunny Isles pier

His wings spread
His body teetering
In a salty breeze
As if in mid-flight

Stationary
But with all the motion
Of the universe
Rushing about him

Like a propeller
Whirling
And steering
In the currents of the sea

Yet absent a ship to thrust.

Pelican

A pelican, tellican
where the fish all are,
A pelican, catchican
fishes near and far.

With a giant scoopican
dive upon the pond,
With his huge beakican
store them for later on.

Parking On Pelican Pier

Parking on Pelican Pier (Not so original monoku) contest 




             Pelican Pier here I come...Landing to eat Tuna Tuesday treats

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