Animal Raven Poems

In the shadowed grove, where moonlight wanes,
A raven perches, feathers inked with midnight stains.
Its eyes, twin orbs of obsidian, hold secrets untold,
As it croaks its...

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Seasons bring ... the nights, Machiavelli's
Corvus corax or ravens, hints, rallies
birds of good and evil, biblically,
and birds of a feather, ominously,
fed Elijah; 1 Kings 17:...

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Iridescent black feathers
On your porch steps
Reflecting the sunlight
Into your eyes

Obsidian grace
like delicate petals
Soft on my fingertips
Stubborn against the wind

And in the morning's rage
I saw a...

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Ravens, 
A touch of black,
A deep voice it’s using, 
It appears when there’s misfortune,
Lurking.  
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Wild Birds in Captivity

Those birds that roamed free,
Endless flights filled with glee,
They glide over the trees,
Flying side to side with the breeze,

Above the deserts, they...

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Oh the raven that flies in the skies above.
While we all stand down here adoring the doves.
Only thinking of a raven as death and ill.
But...

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The Raven
I sat on the terrace over the kitchen, taking the sun
when a raven came, sat on the railing, eyeing me
It decided I was not...

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Have you ever heard a crow caw in the dead of night
Never the thought crossed my mind until such was my plight
In the bright of...

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ravens scream
at midnight high
forever looking into the moon 
it’s magnetic white light glowing
a dark house feeling distant 
on an enigmatic horizons seam
dogs eyes glow distantly
Canines...

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In the corner there...
Under the defused lights,
With spectral highlight’s here, 
There, they float near and afar.
An apple sits in its technicolor glory, 
It's not fully...

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Alone candle flame
Burning into the night
Burning deep in the heart
The endless dark
Waves of ink crash upon 
This island of illuminated shores
Bleak hours of lost sorrow
Love...

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todays breeze
brought ravens
sailing overhead

soaring dimensions
enjoying themselves
in a manner that spoke

volumes as to their being
the most intelligent of birds
with respect self critical thinking

imaginative problem solving skills
that...

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Watch out below!” shrieked the interloping crow.
Ronald scooted back, but it landed on his toe.
Pardon me, said the whippersnapper extraordinaire,
But you have to admit there...

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Limericks II - Nature Poems and Animal Poems

Dot Spotted
by Michael R. Burch

There once was a leopardess, Dot,
who indignantly answered: "I’ll not!
The gents are impressed
with the...

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