Short Curlew Poems
Short Curlew Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Curlew by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Curlew by length and keyword.
The Not So Original Monoku Challenge
The long billed curlew is frightened by something, he's ready to take flight....
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Categories:
curlew, bird, fear, senses,
Form:
Monoku
Haiku Marsh
Out of the vast marsh
plaintive grey curlew calling -
my sister scolding me....
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Categories:
curlew, bird, sister,
Form:
Haiku
As If To Remind Me
As if
To remind me
Of past sorrows,
The plaintive cry of a curlew
In the distance.
W.A. CHOLT . COPYRIGHT Fergal O Reilly. 2017....
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Categories:
curlew, introspection, sorrow,
Form:
Tanka
The Curlew
The curlew’s trademark, long down curved bill
Delves deep in mud, belly to fill
Heath and moorland breeding ground
Mating calls eerie sound
And then chicks arrive
Oh how they thrive
Birds anew
Curlew
View...
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Categories:
curlew, bird, nature,
Form:
Nonet
Meeting
Moon peeped
through the treetops,
tiptoed
to a window,
knocked softly
and hushed
to keep his promise.
‘Chuck, chuck, chuck, '
a gecko wished;
a bat dropped
an oozing mango
and flapped
from the backyard;
a curlew
screamed a welcome note;
a door creaked open,
and they
shadowed the moon.
Robert Browning's "Meeting at Night" inspired me when writing this piece....
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Categories:
curlew, beauty, love, moon, nature, night,
Form:
Free verse
Wild Life Words
Adder,badger
barn owl
black hairstreak
silver studded blue
damsel fly
fritillary
sundew-
Marsh helleborine
Duke of Burgundy
goat willow too-
Porcelain fungus
purple emperor
quaking grass
skylark
bush cricket
curlew-
Dowy emerald
bluebell
wild service tree
Gentian
corncockle
widgeon
chalk hill blue
inspired by BBOWT WILD LIFE CHAMPIONS...
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Categories:
curlew, bereavement, nature,
Form:
Free verse