Short Avian Poems

Hoots and Howls at night,
Canine and avian too
After the same prey....

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A hen in my yard.
Time to clip some wing feathers;
Chicken adventure!...

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wind mill sweeps sun rise
avian crow scatters wake -
animated prophet...

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Twas a man with that spatula
The mad cousin of Dracula
And Tragically Spectacular
Alas flat Pisttacula...

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I got a bad case of the avian flu
It's a bad case and the prescription is you
There's a bird out there that's gotten me
That writes mad rhymes to a Rotten T...

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Rising from the divine ashes they fly
Avian angels in mystic ascent
In rhyme of floral essence their souls lie
Love lured by timeless heavenly content

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plumage of fine art 
shakes in courtship ritual…
grand avian pride

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April 12, 2022
Syllable count : 5/7/5 (HMS)
Contest : Wild Animal Haiku
Sponsored by : Tania Kitchin...

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A cat with a plan to attack
And gobble an avian snack
Was put in his place
Oh what a disgrace
To get his own medecine back!

26.03.24


Picture Prompt Poetry Contest
sponsor :  Margarita Lillico...

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Cunning Sam craved to catch caged canary,
feigned sly not to be overtly scary.
      He sneaked with dinner in mind,
      caught in cage, Sam starved confined.
The bird performed Houdini sorcery.
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Dawn dawned, showed her gold
And avian band unfolded, 
My sleep lost her hold

And I wondered why
Such splendid jewel should turn jade
And in day's lap die! 
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 Haiku |40.06.2021|...

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With hops, pecks and scattered flights
Eating unlucky bugs and earliest worms
Bright blue eggs holding future roosts
Nests made with symetrical intricacies
Guarded postures showing orange chests
Avian state symbols in Wisconsin trees...

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avian mystique
                                      
                                          angels and dinosaurs
                                         
                                          eating from my hand








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Amidst the woods, there existed exquisite birds,
Warbling melodiously upon trees with rhythms that charm,
Their vibrant hues reminiscent of a festive evergreen,
Meticulously adorned within the forest's arboreal realm, akin to celebration adornments....

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vast wonder-scape

expanse
                   variegated flora silent joy

           confetti heat-swirl rise

oaken nesting suites sprinkled

              seedlings dispatched on cue

          avian and apis

propagate


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(design)...

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An image comes unbidden
in a quickening flash:
the dark silhouette of
a female, part avian,
upright and still
in a moss-clad marsh,
poised in the luster
of a golden half-sun.
The ongoing joy
of such fleeting thoughts:
a secret skylight
in a 10’ by 12’ room....

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Birds tweet beside my window
  all through the summer night
An endless chorus of chatter
  until the morning's light

They pause then, perhaps for breakfast
  while I bury my head in my pillows
Then just when I'm finally sleeping
  they resume their peccadillos...

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Dusk birds in clover
the purple fields of rich song
Gold day was so long
Flying in fragrance, darkly
mingling at evening's soiree

Through sweet green, dimly
on the summer night of nights
as red Mars wanders
Nebulous shapes flit moon hours
Avian verve in flowers...

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Wings monger air.
A host of defrocked preachers
buckle and swag.
Mobs clique and crowd in clusters.
Grackles, 
skip, jump, and plunder on.

The birds pilfer, promenade,
scrum, pluck,
lift off swearing 
in an avian Yiddish.

Heaven is rocked
by their thimble-sized storms....

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June sound waves are breathtakingly glittery.
Waves build avid foam on sandy coasts till blistery. 
Avian creatures while they slumber, are still jittery    
While the blossoming flora spreads its mystery. 
Anemones and coral reefs show Earth's history.

Written: June 4, 2023...

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Nightingale perched in solitude 
wrapped in words, that protect against this world

Lusty branches 
lie fallow 
stark avian beauty 
flys into my sad dreams,

Still
my songbird chooses
to sing, to shake the night
I, a captive blackbird
tied 
bound 
to her soft melody
I float
on notes
of winter joy

PB...

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Solid white oak tree with stalwart branches.
God's creatures, bed and breakfast.
Refuge for the wayward kitten.
Hides the homes and young of the song birds
and scurrying squirrels.

Deep rooted to stand for ages and 
shade the lives of those who journey and stop to rest for
awhile below your splendorous branches....

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Ungainly, slow, he took his time
Slowly flapping languid wings,
The Heron now began to climb
'Twas though it was his final fling,
He seemed to give it everything.

Yet as the Heron began to soar
It changed from toil to avian grace,
No heaving struggle any more
Elegant flight took it's place,
Life, played at a Herons pace....

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Reflecting on the
birds which fly overhead
Rumi created "Birdsong"
In the silence of spring
Avian music charms us
Do you not know
what awaits you 
at the end of the journey?
You do know!
Yes,you do know
So enjoy natural delights
Feel the spring wind
Listen to the birdsong
as it creates a picture in sound
Watch the birds float
on the wind...

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Written: June 16, 2023



Dead flower's last bud
ebbing mana of the wane yearns -
a rotting flower mourns

she has a yen for the

brimming sun song weaves
shielding in her gemstone womb

splashing glitter on spring's canvas
tinged with rust and crimson cardinals

to foster the avian fantasies of a
winter-weakened wilderness!...

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artillery spent
      
               battery chickens rising 

                   the avian spring 





...and now for something completely different, 
   this eighteenth day of May, in the year,
   two thousand and twenty. 



*battery - cage used for animal production
*artillery - rows and columns of batteries connected in a unit...

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