Short Herons Poems

Short Herons Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Herons by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Herons by length and keyword.


Winter Morning

This winter morning
Herons come to the swamp land
Seeking living food
Suddenly black cloud sheds rain
Winter coldness hugs born pain


-January 02,2020 CTG, BD
Categories: herons, cool, life, winter,
Form: Rengay


Bucolic Bliss

golden paddies sway in sync as soft wind strokes their
cheeks ~ white herons squawk


Date: 08/15/2021
For A Brian Strand 1,2,3,4, or 5 Line Poetry Contest
Categories: herons, nature,
Form: Monoku
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A Pond's Melody

A Pond’s Melody

dragonflies buzzing
spring peepers chirping for mates
splashing fish jumping for meals
blue herons squawking
bilious bullfrogs croaking
quacking mallards leading young
Categories: herons, nature,
Form: Choka

Pivoting

Under a blue moon, 
a cuckoo
gives an agonizing call.

*

Clouds will wait.
Till a caravan 
of herons will sail.

*

The rains have 
washed away all the malice,
all the soot.


Satish Verma
Categories: herons, art,
Form: ABC
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Whiteness Contest

Sea caps, white, shadows Fin, cutting above surface White caps part, Great White
Herons calling out Congregating over cove A gaggle of clouds
Eagle soars above Snowshoe hare, new tracks, no hare Disguise of whiteness
© Rollo West  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: herons, nature,
Form: Haiku


The River Line

Majestic river tumbles down
gleaming glorious in dawn's rise.
Herons surface glossed in onyx
sprayed by cascades of polished jade,
and I curl boughs in pleats canopied wild
on bank of prayers rolling to meet sea.



Written 2/26/17 for the River Line Contest
Categories: herons, beauty, nature, prayer, river,
Form: Verse
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Sun watching over the Lake

Sun gazing throughout 
the sensual faint hues 
dazzling off the lake 
the holy spirit appears 
in my midst while 
giant Egrets land 
on cool waters
as thousands of 
white herons perch 
nestled so completely 
calming my gentle soul
while I rest overlooking 
America
Categories: herons, allah,
Form: Nonet
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Glimpses of Summer 2020

willow trees frolic
waltzing in summer music--
concert of hatchlings

stretching necks and bills
scanning rivers, spreading wings--
blue herons catch fish

June 25, 2020
Placed 1st: Summer haiku poetry contest
Syllables: 5,7,5 (howmanysylables.com)
Sponsor: Tania Kitchin
Categories: herons, bird, imagery, summer,
Form: Haiku

My Old Flame

My Old Flame

Would that I would fly
To ocean’s side
And catch the twinkling caps,
Where the moon touches
The boundary ridges
And I could but dream of you.
“Over there” you sailed 
Where herons fly
Oh, so long ago.
I missed you so – I did not know
That you would be truly gone.
Categories: herons, grief, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse

Oil Spillage

Thick viscous liquid on top
as the herons hover round,
looking for a way to grab
their underneath preys.

entrapped preys struggle for air,
fisher men confused and stunned,
Movement of tourists hindered,
water can`t be drunk.

DATE:11-25-2012

Olusegun Arowolo

CONTEST:"Natural Dodoitsu" sponsored by Russel Sivey
Categories: herons, life, nature,
Form: Dodoitsu

Night Sky

tied against the mountain
the blue children play
the  upturned apples' cart
scent filled the air
The Wild herons flew southwards
as the crucible sun hit the apex

Crimson skies laced against
the white aconite churchyards
We left, denouncing  the first hymn
we heard
surely someone has desecrated the night sky
Categories: herons, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse

Let's Go On Friendship Street

Here
Rainy season
Time spins itself
You are coming now
In this white morning lap
Herons fly over the blue sky
As if love story starts its journey
Let's go we make our love full season
Let the drizzling and breeze come bit by bit
Love will be divine if we go on friendship street 


- Friday, June 14, 2019 Chattogram
Categories: herons, friendship,
Form: Free verse

A Herons Pace

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.
© Gary Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: herons, beauty, bird, nature,
Form: Quintain (English)

The Herons Fly

As he spreads his wings
The wind flutters the feathers
Against a heron-dotted sky
Of deepest dark
A strong wind to fly
As granite boulders blackly rumble
Deepest voice as raindrops tumble
Down towards
The heron’s crown
The fields ablaze
With electric haze
And an ozone stench spices
As volts and death splices
The scene into a triptych
Categories: herons, bird, flying, nature, storm,
Form: Dramatic Verse
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Monsoon Fest: a Nonet

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auburn light tickling mystic marshlands
on thin rafts kissing noon's delight
husky day  lifts grasses’ hems
cradling petals on palms,
herons dance astray
a dizzy feast
all flowers
soaking
wine

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all rights reserved
            ©



for Brian Strand's "Poem From Year First Year... Contest"
from nette onclaud
Categories: herons, music, nature
Form: Nonet

The Sunset of the Day

The sunsets large on the yonder horizon

Herons fly across the illuminated orange sky

Another day has come to pass and time like the herons fly

On a journey into the unknown

To a destination that is far away

But something is for sure

That as we see that every day will end

In full luminescent glory

So another day will sure enough begin

With a promise of a new story.
Categories: herons, day, flying, imagery, sunset, time, uplifting,
Form: Free verse

How Bright the Dew

...each a reflection of a world remade
laid by a river's flight.

Time's is a swimmer on this water road.
By a rickety dock herons fish for rainbows
riding on silvery trout.

Here on a meadow bank
dewy droplets
bracelet wet stems.
An iridescence
beads a newborn morn

My dog sniffs the prismatic air,
the fresh fledged green;
sweeps her bushy tail
scattering
a sparkling fringe of sky.
Categories: herons, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Slap Goes the Water

A heron shoots a glassy eye
keeps fishing by doing nothing.
Oars slap water.

An early sun crashes through the mist
intent on warming eggs in lakeside nests.

Slap go the oars, a clunky-swoosh,
a white wake burbling.

If I row very slowly
it will be a few minutes before breakfast.
You will be dishing a trout onto a buttery plate.

Elsewhere, a silver fish 
swims down a blue herons throat
       slip slapping all the way.
Categories: herons, poetry,
Form: Free verse

A Goddess

through the ether 
she appeared

A Goddess
attended by herons 
the softest light pours
from her eyes
flamed by the embers  
of her heart

loving without knowing
caring without seeing 
a voice for those 
without freedom, 
the answering cry
from the dark,
nobody else hears

cresting Great Rivers, 
Buck-eyed Demigods  
genuflect at her feet

she is worshiped
this Brilliant Goddess

and today 
is her Birthday 

For ~A
Categories: herons, dedication
Form: Blank verse

Lance-Lot

Lance-Lot
by Michael R. Burch

Preposterous bird!
Inelegant! Absurd!

Until the great & mighty heron
brandishes his fearsome sword.

Keywords/Tags: Nature, Animal, Bird, Birds, Heron, Herons, Fish, Fishing, River, Ocean, Ardeidae, Egret, Egrets, Bittern, Bitterns, Great Blue Heron, Goliath Heron, Gray Heron, Great Egret, Crane, Stork, Ibis, Spoonbill, Beak, Bill, Sword, Lance, Spear, Inelegant, Gawky, Awkward, Ungainly, Gangly, Preposterous
Categories: herons, animal, bird, fish, fishing, nature, ocean, river,
Form: Couplet

First Light

how bright the dew
in the sunlight
each drop
a picture of a world remade

down by the dock herons watch
rainbows riding over silver fish

time shows-up as a water road
journeying to just here

this place where dawn dew
mirrors a million first lights
gleaming out
of a million suns

my dog sniffs at the prismatic air
the light
the new fledged green 

she sweeps her furry tail
back and forth
scattering a bespangled sky
behind her
Categories: herons, poetry,
Form: Free verse

when florida got shy

when my river ran into your waterfall
startled egrets and alarmed herons
reached for the sky

the claws of surprised osprey let go
of wriggling fish

for a long moment
florida became a frozen lake

you could see the stunned faces
of stopped clocks
trapped beneath the ice

when we plunged
into each other unheeding
of time and place

plastic flamingos
and pink barbie dolls
flew away
in the wide open eyes
of passing snowbirds
Categories: herons, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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Being At One With Sea Nature

Being at One With Sea Nature
Soaking Up Breeze, Sun, Feeling Stunned,
Eyeing Frolicking Seals, Herons, To Join In Their Fun,
Water Strolling, Shell Finding on Wavy Beach & Ocean.

Blistering Skin, Wind in Hair, Sandy Feet,
Soaking Tee-Shirt, Body to Beat the Heat,
Sharing Surf Picnic Ala Friends Exquisitely Neat.

Sailing & Exploring Where You're Blown,
Kinship With Creation, Saluting Nature's Own,
Too Seldom Acknowledge Likewise We're Sown!
Categories: herons, animal, boat, celebration, july, nature, sea,
Form: Rhyme
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Moon Whispers

the full moon dangles low tonight
and whispers sweetly in my ear
memories of fiery delight  
the full moon dangles low tonight
graceful herons glide in full flight   
I’d trade them all to hold you near
the full moon dangles low tonight
and whispers sweetly in my ear



AP: 1st place 2020

Submitted on November 15, 2018 for contest LATE NOVEMBER sponsored by BRIAN STRAND  -  RANKED 1ST

and June 12, 2018 for contest MOON POETRY sponsored by KEVIN SHAW
Categories: herons, absence, beauty, longing, love, moon, nature, nostalgia,
Form: Triolet
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Rain Songs

Upon these placid waters the wind blows fair,
bream chase waves tossed by boats here, and there,

Crimson vessels slice through  crest,
giving channel cats time to rest,

Blue herons walk along picking through perch nest,
murmuring bull frogs make their best rain calls,

Some white owl makes nightly squalls,
using nothing more than stars to light his way,

Mystical mighty cypress trees sway big, and tall,
they too seem to have something to say to all...





For contest 179
Categories: herons, nature, peace,
Form: Light Verse
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