Rook Poems

The Rook-ie Senator Who Dethroned King Trump

Standing ovations and rounds of applause
The elephants trumpeted just because
T-rump pulled their puppet strings
As if he had Angel wings
They should've been protesting with guffaws

I chose not to watch the bigotted sap
Or hear the hypocrite spew words he'd yap
At the butt kissing event
My time was much better spent
Wondering how people believe his crap

A message in response

Categories: rook, political,
Form: Limerick

A Land Without a Single Crook

A land without a single crook,
Because criminals they don't brook:
They'd out fish them with a hook
Relying in their roguish look...

A District without a Half Crook
Battered eyes to one make a spook
And as unpleasant as damned gooks...
The criminal, without fail, cooks
First claiming that he lives took

Then, high time petty that you forsook
No one has got wings

Categories: rook, change, conflict, evil, perspective,
Form: Rhyme

Rook Moves In

grey
squirrel
busily 
buries acorns
keenly observed by shrewd ravenous rook.
rook swoops in, pillaging hidden treasures,
jewels shattered
on roof tops;
oak tree
groans.


15.10.20


'Double Tetractys 4' Poetry Contest
Sponsor : Eve Roper

Categories: rook, bird, nature,
Form: Tetractys

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Crow

Do not judge bird with black coloured wing,
“ugly looking thief that cannot sing!” 
“snatches from others so it can feed!”
A bird linked to death, darkness and greed!

How prejudice clouds our timid mind?
Is it fear of darkness, makes us blind?
we fail to see the beauty inside,
dark the countenance,black the hide!

Many there in Corvid family,
Crow, Raven, Rook

Categories: rook, black african american, dark,
Form: Rhyme

One Knight Stand

The Queen bade us not to despair
When a knight leapt into the air
Sly as a crook
He took our Rook
Check-mating our King fair and square!

Categories: rook, computer, conflict, culture, games,
Form: Limerick

Rook Takes Pawn

Clever you are
playing your game
you   are   no

   common crow

However preened your plumes
blades of night to obscure
far from blind
I can see right through

   to the dawn

You thought me taken
but myself I have given
I want to be your

   sacrificial pawn

But do open the blind
and let the light

Categories: rook, bird, games, lust, sexy,
Form: Free verse

Rook Takes Pawn

the rook took the pawn
just before the pawn was queened
toppled pawn booty

Categories: rook, games,
Form: Haiku

Diamond Rook

Titanium.
Smooth and cold to the touch. 
Rhinestones. 
Blinding shimmer, small iridescence.

Blood.
Thick, warm, metallic. 

Even the beautiful gems become absorbed in the red, 
Their shine masked by hemoglobin and platelets.

Pain, 
A tiny shoot at first, then blossoms into white hot petals. 
Penetrating the skin, carving all the way through. 

Adrenaline comes next, replacing the sting.
Numbness fills

Categories: rook, anger, dark, depression, hurt,
Form: Free verse

A Gentleman's Game

=====================================

Can any here recall my name?
Intoned by plenty years ago,
today I'd say but for a game
they play, not many here may know!

But here I stand and there you sit
and since we're comrades, more or less,
let's have a bit of fun with it!
What hints I give may help you guess...

I, with my face of stone, a

Categories: rook, games, war,
Form: Sonnet

Robin, Rook, Swan and Dove

A robin its breast as red as cherries

The rook in mourning dress,
Its nest in the graveyard tree,
Cawing in sympathy to tears of distress,
Looking down sadly on misery,
Hoping its young do not see.

The long necked swan swims,
So elegant on water,
Its beauty supreme;
On land it looks ungainly:
A beauty queen in jack boots.

No sacrifice, the dove coos love

Categories: rook, animalsbeauty, beauty,
Form: Free verse

Rook On the Rocks, a Sandcastle

Written large & form erroding

Shore & folly show.'

Blending light & water almost solid.



© Joe Maverick 5-12-2010


for SKATS sandcastle haiku contest

Categories: rook, art,
Form: Haiku

The Rook

8D
my mind is an open book.
read it and have a look.
"Open" said Crow.
"We near the brook"
"Stones are there and
little by little does the trick.

Love the journey... it's the
Mother of all invention.


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http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2009-08-06-aesop-experiment_N.htm?csp=34

Article By Malcolm Ritter, Associated Press
NEW YORK — From the goose that laid the golden egg to the race between the tortoise and
the hare, Aesop's

Categories: rook, imagination, inspirational, love, mystery,
Form: I do not know?

The Raven, the Rook and the Crow

Cousins in flight
The skies their place
Black and grey plumage
With a different face
 
This genus Corvus
The colour of night
Passerine order
A wonderful sight
 
A pest to many
Nuisance to lambs
Natural progression 
In natures plans
 
As we roamed the lands
Viewed these birds
Helped their demise
Incredibly absurd
 
Colonisation has rid
These important birds
From the following islands
The sadness incurred
 
New Zealand, Hawaii 
And

Categories: rook, animals, loss, nature
Form: Rhyme