Pelican Poems | Examples

State Of The Pelican

Summertime
in Louisiana's Big Easy
bass are jumpin'
and the cypress grow high
no your daddy ain't rich
but your ma's not bad-lookin'
so fish a little bayou
won't you try
some of these evenings
they're gonna rise up flyin'
and they'll spread their wings
as pelicans take to the sky
but 'til next mornin'
there ain't no one can charm you
like Acadians or Cajun standin' by

With apologies to Edwin DuBose Heyward (1885 — 1940)

Indigestible

My heart is a pelican beak.  
Opens wide but never sings.
Conceals what the tongue cannot survive.
Drips salt from truths left unchewed.
A pouch tucked with fishbones,
straining to sift the indigestible

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 to get us all to agree.
To overpower the captain and have a gay mutinee.
We did not know what to do, so we lied through our teeth.
He did not believe some of us, we walked the plank and fell underneath.

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 any I could have written. 


His poem:

A wonderful bird is the pelican
His bill can hold more than this belican…
He can hold in his beak
Enough food for a week…
And I’ll be damned if I see how the helican

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 Nash)
for authorship of the popular Pelican Limerick.

Bite Size Poem No. 16
Sponsor: Line Gauthier

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 an imaginative dream 
Cascade behind a veil of still purple madness.

Lost now, am I in dream
From out that still shroud breaks a ship called the Endure
Upon the deck, grey old pelican sleeps
As the captains wheel spins, unmanned and unwon
Yet that bird is but the best of me
In the yellow beneath its bill holds the morrow morn
In his gullet holds the fish of life
Feeding deep on the sea he sleeps

Say old Endure your bow does rise
Your bell to chime as the midnight fades 
Taste the wave that in your travel bathe 
But disturb not your sail or your sleeping son
For the best of birds still needs his rest
Now on the deck in sheltered dream
For time decides the day to fly
A ship of empty boards when he does leave

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.

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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