Missed links
Clawed wings, blue cheeks,
Rufous crest, maroon eyes
Gawky gait, baffling diet, odd
Bird stinks*
*Hoatzin bird
Categories:
rufous, bird,
Form: Cinquain
"The Hoatzin is an extremely ancient and isolated type, and it has very properly been set aside in a separate Order by itself" - Quote by William Beebe.
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He is doodle of peacock -- Rufous crest
buff breast, loud call, weird stock
malodorous, clumsy walk
a link of the first bird flock
Categories:
rufous, bird,
Form: Englyn
September welcoming Falls to appear.
Ensuing slowly Deciduous trees
Prepared to make all withered leaves to clear.
Torn fluffy white cotton clouds floating free.
Entry of soft nascent leaf buds to sprout.
Mild merry Autumn - Zephyr flows frolic.
Bright Blue hue on sky : Absolute no doubt.
Egrets flying in form 'V' ! Artistic.
Rufous vibrant Autumn in glossy glaze..
Fragrant Jasmine spreading sweet aroma
Autumnal glow in shiny sunny days.
Lovely lustrous pretty panorama.
Luminous amiable ambience.
Sparkling Autumn in charming radiance.
Categories:
rufous, september,
Form: Acrostic
Eight Words 2 8-8-24
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Velvet Night
On a warm, velvet summer night,
When moonlight drips in a soft SIGH,
The scents of LILACS bathe starlight
And CAJOLE crickets to reply.
MISTY castles enchant SLUMBER
On a warm, velvet summer night
Spent hearts dream in shades of umber
In mystical moonstruck half-light.
Midnight mistrals, rufous bobwhites,
Chirp with sweet sonata finesse
On a warm, velvet summer night
Soft breath of summer seeks to bless.
ETCHING calm into WEARY eyes
Sweet wine of sleep nuzzles midnight
Dulcet GUITAR blooms – sweet tones rise –
On a warm, velvet summer night.
Categories:
rufous, night, summer,
Form: Quatern
Orioles, blue jays, blackbirds, and red robins all sing
robustly to tangelo sun, as meadows and woods ring.
All through spring and summer gloss, as roses glisten,
Nature's noonday, jade heartbeats, cause all to listen!
Glittering gold on green lakes-an afternoon of amber,
Exotic trills rise, in quiet hours of persimmon glamour.
Saffron songs swell in the orange peel, blossom fields,
entrancing them into a dark orange dance of the hills.
Rivoli's hummingbird hums, in a purple and teal coat
even donned in green and brown, in marigold soaked.
Nightingale croons plaintive, florid, butterscotch arias,
and there is revelry of roses, in far, marmalade areas!
Day is so long for rufous hummingbird, in fiery plumes,
Enriching hot, lime spaces, with apricot, droning tunes.
Categories:
rufous, beautiful, bird, color, nature,
Form: Acrostic
The Missus is angry, Rufous told his wife.
Are you sure? She sounds like that a lot.
Her husband just flew off with the babysitter.
That young thing! What? His wife was outraged.
I think so.
The wife grabbed the binoculars.
That’s not the babysitter; that’s his son!
His son looks like a girl, Rufous said.
I have told you this time and time again.
Male peacocks are the pretty ones.
The plain ugly brown ones are their wives.
Rufous did not want to acknowledge his wife’s smartness.
So he kept looking, hoping something would happen to validate
At least a tiny bit of the story he fabricated about the neighbors.
His wife smirked, knowing exactly what her husband was doing.
Categories:
rufous, bird,
Form: Prose Poetry
March on, April, and may
irises counterpose
raring purples yellow
As gray clouds in sun dance
Gentling storms rain mellow…
March on, April, and may
endearing pinks breezy
move magic carpet rides
In petals morphed to leaves
Rufous plum branches hide…
March on, April, and may
amaryllis buds dew
gleaming in your cool drops
Elegantly bleeding
Massive red, makes hearts stop…
March on, April, and may
iridescence fly by
restless in moody hues
A meld of hot and cold
Great hope’s mirage are you!
(4/24/2022)
Categories:
rufous, april,
Form: Monchielle Stanza
My Little Sparrow
Oh Little Sparrow
How come you here?
Your rufous neck
Seems so cute
And your white little cheeks
Are too small to hold a seed
And a bushy black bil
With conical structure
Seems so great
As its a visual treat..
Why don't you go to the grasslands?
And all the deserts and the woodlands?
Do you want to live with me?
Oh Little Sparrow
Come to me...
ABC-Always Be Careful
Cause the dreadful cats,
Hungry Hawks
Came here in search of you...
Where is your clump?
You better go back..
Oh Little Sparrow
Bid You Goodbye.....
Categories:
rufous, 9th grade, bird,
Form: Ballad
SERENITY
Hitting hot hammer scorching Sun shines up high.
Weary thirsty Jacobin cuckoo to cry.
Clouds melting in rains with thunderstorms to fly.
Rainy season trying to moisten soil dry.
Fury of passion like glowing ember got shrunken.
Chasing Summer Rains appear in sequence
soothing dry spell on aqua opulence
softening tremendous heat in cool essence.
pacifying hot wrath of Summer, though intense.
Rains bring bliss, command of Summer was shaken.
Whimsy wind furrowing white torn pieces of cotton clouds.
In seamless sky luminous Moon is allowed
Glory of rufous auburn Autumn stepping loud.
Carrying pearly pristine peace Autumn feels proud.
Calm tranquil serenity to awaken.
08/26/20
'Serenity Awakened' Contest by Regina McIntosh
Categories:
rufous, appreciation, autumn, rain, summer,
Form: Rhyme
IN AUTUMN’S EVES
With closed eyes in Autumn’s eves of gold
My muse flows with glory of auburn Autumn.
I feel mild Autumn zephyr to murmur.
In my eager arms I wish you to hold.
I open eyes for cotton clouds to behold.
Migratory grey geese in gossamer
fly long to mate in the rufous Fall
Emotive urge surges arrogant bold.
I wish to voice my love ever untold.
In drizzles rainbow kissing horizon.
Sparkling blooms dazzling in classy cluster.
Passion boosting dormant desire to mold.
Nascent verdure shining shedding leaves old.
Some blossoms turn bronze-red top to bottom.
Blazing brightening colors in multi-fold.
Rhyming scheme abca adea afga aba.
Line used 'When with closed eyes in Autumn's eves of gold'[
03/28/20
First Place
'Lines to Awaken your Muse 2' Contest by Joseph May
Second Place
'STRAND PICK 5' Contest by Brian Strand
Categories:
rufous, appreciation, autumn,
Form: Rhyme
Cindy my infamous old cat,
Often brings me part of a rat.
Sometimes a bird leg she brings.
Really, what can I do with those things?
Now she brought part of a squirrel.
I guess somehow he had his last whirl.
I assume you know which part brought.
The bushy part I would not have sought.
From the appearance of that tail,
He probably had plenty of tales to tell.
The rear fur was fine as any silk,
Oily as the buttercream on milk.
Rufous belly as great color known,
That tail when twitched orange shades were shown.
He loved our Italian cuisine,
Also those type of green beans.
Sad to see him go in such a way.
I guess that Cindy was hungry that day.
Our garden is just outside of a large wooded area. Squirrels come from the woods and eat our garden. They seem to love green apples, olives, and green beans. The squirrel when well fed is a very lovely animal though.
Written: Tuesday, November 06, 2018
I hope this is what you are looking for in your contest.
Categories:
rufous, life, nature,
Form: Couplet
He writes, pouring down his words of glory
Disclose the echoes of his wondrous dream
Down into his soul her untold story
Boundless desire; her tears, her eyes gleam.
With strokes of rufous and cherry and wine
Erasing the dark shadows from her eyes
Canvas of ivory their love entwine
Surround them believe, O Eros, Arise!
Her heart she bore in a penumbra wakes
Of all the galaxies vast, he chose hers
Loving arms hold her still, is what it takes
His gaze, his touch, his love he then whispers
His words are robins of dawn in her heart
They fall, no they fall and never to part.
(C)2017 Maricris Cabrera
Categories:
rufous, love, passion,
Form: Sonnet
For the first time ever,
a Cardinal's nest lay cleverly hidden
in a juncture of two branches
of the red rose climber
on the south wall of our garage.
Over the years, we'd watched with pleasure
as House Finches, Eastern Phoebe,
Bluebirds, and Wrens nested in flowerpots,
birdhouses, spruce trees, and on porch walls.
Purple Martins snootily passed us by
in spite of elaborate housing provided.
Once, a Rufous-sided Towhee deposited
her eggs on the ground, underneath
a large cedar tree near the driveway.
We mowed around them, shooed turtles
toward distant woods, and watched
eggs hatch, babies fly into the future.
Cardinal babes were a new and welcome
experience. Almost daily, we peeked.
But grief came quickly with eagle eye,
hooked talon, and razor-edged beak.
A Cooper's Hawk left a shattered nest,
a mother's heart ripped apart, and us,
feeling her pain to the marrow of our bones.
Categories:
rufous, baby, bird, death, grief,
Form: Free verse
calypso darting
peering through open windows
rufous hummingbird
an old gourd hanging
blowing gently in the breeze
its peach tree abode
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this hummingbird has been hanging around all season, at first i thought it was simply due to the feeders. after doing some lawn maintenance today, i saw it entering a hollowed out gourd i put in my peach tree last summer. i figure, s/he is now part of the estate, may as well give it a name: calypso.
Categories:
rufous, beautiful, bird, flying, tree,
Form: Haiku
An eagle sits in the cedar,
Another is soaring nearby.
If he hadn't called I'd have missed them.
I just wouldn't look that high.
A rufous towhee is searching
For seed that's been spilled on the ground.
A refilled feeder awaits him,
If he'd take a good look around.
How often we miss God's treasures
Just because we don't raise our eyes.
By keeping our narrow focus
We blunder and miss the prize.
We go through our lives with blinders,
Not seeing the glorious view,
Nor appreciating His wonders,
While our selfish ways we pursue.
A rainbow after the rainstorm,
Is worth living through rainy days.
Just lift your eyes from the puddles.
His benevolence will truly amaze.
By: Joyce Johnson 2001
Categories:
rufous, thank you,
Form: Rhyme
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