Short Fledglings Poems

Andromeda covers
the osprey fledglings
with a cloud of stars...

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gardens in full bloom
fledglings abandon their nests
summer's flourishing...

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Hunger
call the tune-
Springtime's fledglings
in unison lift voices 
and sing...

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swallows feed fledglings 
swifts and sparrows sing for joy ---
migrant birds back home


02 April 2022...

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empty nests aside
sparrows are happier now
fledglings flew away

May 29, 2021...

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Parents nurture young
Finally freedom to fly
Fledglings spread their wings

28th April 2015...

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broken blue eggshells
scampering fledglings practice
robins taking flight


For Haiku Captcha Contest
8/12/18...

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So now I sit and watch the years go past
I wonder how my children grew so fast






For : Time - single rhyming couplet contest 
1st Place...

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deep in the forest
a bird hums to her babies ...
the silence listens

three oval eggs hatch
wispy little fledglings peep ...
beaks open for bugs ...

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swallows swiftly swoop
    foraging flies for fledglings
    daily dawn to dusk 

    1 / 19 / 2022.
    Sponsor Tania Kitchin.
    Contest Nature haiku with alliteration.
    Syllable count Poetrysoup....

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gulls tuck in 
fledglings dream
                       of tomorrow at sea
         emerald sun - 
weeps




20th March 2021


Let's Get Creative Haiku Poetry Contest

Sponsor: Constance La France...

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Fledglings
downy puffballs
of yellow-white feathers
sporting beaks of orange-yellow
discover the joy of liquid raindrops
cascading down from trees to leaves
mastering their art fast
precious offspring
fledglings

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I'm a 'poetaholic', wandering like a drunkard, 
until my ink flies like the mind's fledglings,
leaving behind an empty nest, 
which once kept them safe.
Some words are not for everyone's eyes, 
so I hide them behind sober metaphors....

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Listen to poem:

twelve hours half a day--CQ

night surrenders
saffron sky delves
import tortoise
export fledglings

sand crabs popout
penguins waddle
porpoises play
zenith star slips

2019 August 31

*1st Place*

Charlie-Quadku
~~charles messina...

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flora washed clean  
by torrential rain
extinction event

one inch of rain
in one hour
fledglings starve  

my eyes wide open
watching helplessly
mass extinctions real

swallows swift martins
gone at my location
the sky washed clean



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night sounds awaken
as eerily shrills echo~
ominous mantra

plumed wings cast shadows
reflecting in the moonlight~
twilight prey tango

birds hidden in nests
quietly guarding fledglings ~
nocturnal mission

a night heron squawks
while motionless in the marsh~
still fishing pursuit
...

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blackbirds sqwark and cluck
hungry magpies try their luck-
fledglings hide,dumbstruck

leather sounds on bat
spectators,politely clap-
outfielders,idly chat

children,outdoors stay
on imagination's freeway-
hours in dreamland,play

pigeons coo like doves
the mistlethrush sings above-
hello,my lady-love...

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The beckoning call of the Nightingale
Like the whistle of wind in a sail
Arrives on a spring days tail
And nestles like a cotton ball
Inside a trees hidden cloud 
The hatchlings are so loud
Bumblebees covered in a honey shroud
But never so happy parents will be
When the fledglings leave the tree
The Nightingale nest empty...

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A bleak morning, I waken
To relentless rain.
Drops pearl the redbuds.

Broken branches beckon
With slimy fingers.

A deserted nest perches
In the plum tree;
Black and wet, it does not
Remember the fledglings


12/4/2016 -  35 words

N/A in contest: Any Free Verse 150 words or less ( Laura Loo)
N/A in contest 245 (Brian Strand)...

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Golden eagle





Flies and floats in the higher skies,
Can visualise through dense clouds
the birds inhabited on trees,
Eyes on their nests
and the chirping fledglings,
This golden eagle comes calling ....
swooping down on its prey.





Written Oct 17th, 2015
For contest by Shadow

Awarded 6th place win


Awarded 6th place win...

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Innate Instinct

                                            
Morning dove sits upon her small brood
Warming and feeding her two small fledglings as they grow and mature 

She knows precisely when to turn her back and push her young out into the world

Oh, please Morning dove, share a bit of your innate instinct with me




								Giuliano’s mom...

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Our English summer has returned again
trees and flowers in bloom, fledglings in flight
though this weather is sending me insane,
we need some warmth, sunshine make things so right
all we get is wet, nothing but rain, rain,
shower after shower, all day and night,
dark grey clouds overhead, floods on soaked ground
any more rain, we will surly be drowned....

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Watch the birds in flight
As they soar from sight
Over verdant canopies,
With their nests below
Tiny feathers grow
On their fledglings in the trees.

Hungry mouths to feed
With the gathered seed
Found upon the dewy sod,
Which the skylark brings.
Afterward she sings
Her sweet gift of song to God.

© Connie Marcum Wong

 For Dr. Ram’s
‘The Alouette Contest’...

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to a parent who see's them everyday growing will be so slow. 
but to one who see's them once a year, oh how fast they will grow. 
and when the nest is empty and all the fledglings gone. 
the speed of time will suddenly catch up while the parents begin to long. 
but hope is in the grandchildren who they'll see growing so fast. 
and then they'll know the cycle from beginning to the last...

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Darkened translations emerge from the night.
Fledglings tarnished as they hide from the light.
Parvenue casualties from antiquated sin.
Depraved menage is how it dared begin.

Retribution will one day be poignantly felt.
Severely dispensed, his wrath will be dealt.
No one can hide from their diabolical display
Destruction will find thee and bring your end of day.

December 6, 2020...

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