Short Kestrel Poems

element shrub decoy
patio whim
calcium glaze kestrel...

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Kestrel
Focused falcon
Honed huntress hovering
Adjusts; stoops; lands; dispatches
Raptorial...

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little Robin perched on snow covered fence,
out in open without any defence,
Kestrel saw an easy meal,
considered moral appeal,
In Xmas show love- no room for offence!


10.10.7.7.10 syllables...

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High
above
rich wetland
a lone kestrel .

Patient death beating,
fixed in  measureless blue.

Elegant white swans swim through
rare grasses greeting migrating
geese sliding in with the setting sun.

Darkness falls, who will sing the requiem?...

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Kestrel holds on the gloved hand, releases
  flies away, faces wind 
dives, catches his small prey  

03/12/23
Contest: Writing Challenge 'K' Words
Sponsor: Constance La France
Checked with HowManySyllables.com...

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Painted kestrel, ruddy hawk
Booted eagle, stoop and stalk

Pigeon here and pigeon gone
Blood and feathers stain the dawn

Prairie falcon, osprey, owl
Diurnal hunts, nightly prowls

Raptor  in the endless sky
My soul soars with you as you fly...

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    She is quite the Mistress of the air, synchronize swimming where Eagles dare-stare, no need for landing batons or clearance, she has her own flare.

She wraiths the hapless night and the brilliance of day, rakes the sky, knowing her beauty laid, showcased on big screenery-
rewards God with a show bow and cloud kiss of why His All Knowingness plays, ~The Mistress (proud)

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Sienna...

Sounded like silk
looked like silk
it felt like silk 
rolling over her tongue
over her skin
every hair on her neck standing on end
Hackles   rippling 
    hers and his
as he turned his steely blue head towards her

Eye to eye with something   so wild
she felt her soul 
    succumb

Light headed
she sighed
    nay swooned

scratching Kestrel off her list




4.7.2020...

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