Short Murmuration Poems

I'VE DREAMT OF A SKY FULL OF BOTH ALIEN & MAN-MADE AIRCRAFT IN FLIGHT LIKE A MURMURATION OF STARLINGS...

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Murmuration of starlings 
Drone swarm light show 

30 Mar 2023 
Written Bantus Poetry  
Contest Sponsor: Suzanne Dalaney...

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to have seen flocks of
starlings in murmuration
is to have lived a full life
-
it’s as simple as
a child plucking a rose
from a blooming garden bed...

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Unseen for a moment 
Then over the hill 
A sudden flurry of wings 
Murmuration of starlings 
In flight.

         W.A. CHOLT.  Copyright  Fergal O Reilly 2017....

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Starling Murmuration 

 
'Neath Nimbus Dark 

Eerie sings 

Nature's Acrobats

Million wings 

 

Splendour reigns 

Cascades crash

Aeriel Ballet 

Swooping splash 

 

Mesmerising movement 

Semaphore Correlation 

Phenomenon splendid 

Starling Murmuration 

 

thank you...

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We read of so and so and her sad ending,
wince perhaps, as if time had just run out.
of its burning house.

Sadness is an acknowledgement.
that we knew all along
that the world would swallow
every face we ever looked upon.

Most eulogies
are a murmuration of dying words,
half-truths told to the rushing crowd.
and the headlong years....

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I thought I had forgotten you…until

I heard your voice in song, 
	the murmuration of starlings, from the church pew.
I saw your eyes, 
	crystalline brightness in the moon off the sea.
I heard your laugh,
	in soft summer sensations of trembling wind chime.
I saw your hair,
	in spider’s softest web, a strand of sterling silver.

I thought I had forgotten you…never....

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a coat of stars 
on a shiny night you 
wear
and thrive in #'s (almost)
everywhere
Mozart taught you to sing
everything
recite poetry
and greet those
who stumbled in
you are precious
to me
yet so hated
they patent your name
for poison
and rage 
Starlicide
now
half of what you were
your murmurations
still
smoke the sky
just not here 
this year
my dear
my darling 
Starling...

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I learned a murmuration is
a flock of starlings whirling and 
turning in the sky, changing 

directions in a second,
flying back again, blackening 
the sky in long sweeps until 

for reasons man doesn’t know 
the birds separate and fly away. 
A different murmuration now 

gathers on the sand and sends 
dedicated men to new locations. 
Berlin and Paris understand. 


Donal Mahoney...

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The ambience was changing
At the fading of the light.
I could feel a cool embrace,
The coming of the night.

In the sky, a great commotion
Countless starlings did I see
A swirling murmuration
In perfect symmetry.

Fluid moving patterns 
Writ wide across the sky,
Oh, but the joy of it
To watch these starlings fly.

An ever changing tapestry,
It was ballet in the air.
A wonder to behold
I could but stand, and stare....

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Ode To Woe


Fate is such a fickle thing
Cares not one whit for man
Hopes but stones in Nature’s sling
To shatter best laid plan

A swirling murmuration of Starlings
Makes as much sense as fate
And powerless are the greatest kings
In Kismet’s capricious wake

I tried to love with all my might
But Fate and Kismet said “Never!”
My soul has flown into the night
And my heart is broken
…forever…


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Shattered I, in countless pieces,
	Abandoned in the wake of that which me befell.
	Dust settles, and I retrieve the debris of who I was,
	Not knowing yet what I will become.
Broken me…but can be mended
	Fragments mine, in time, reshaping,
	Finding form and beauty in the chaos –
	A murmuration of those shards that were, are, and will be me.
Of destruction myself reborn,
	Ever to be fractured and remade,
	Never static nor complete…
	For even in death, I will be changed.
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All things bright and beautiful.
All creatures great and small.
All things wise and wonderful.
The Lord God made them all.

Cecil Frances Alexander

DARLINGS

darlings you have my attention
your convention in the pines
starlings in numeration
after sunrise...after sunrise
your whirling murmuration
has my adoration
my ears incline...they incline
i open my door’s habitation
an invitation to see you glide
why hide my smile inside

2/23/2021...

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