Short Raptor Poems

halo cross pelican
kite raptor
compost scout Santa...

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capably balanced
wing form swept from curling wave
certain of heaven...

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winged raptor's high perch 
moonlit field carefully scanned
flight triggers panic...

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wildflowered meadows

leverets play hide and seek

keen-eyed raptors search...

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Night bird





Owl
Raptor
Nocturnal 
Screeches and hoots
Crook






Lanterne- 1/2/3/4/1...

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path through greening hills
raptor glides on silent wing-
smoke plume in distance


for the Nature contest...

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RAPTOR

sparrow hawk alights-
the chattering
stops


just one flap of wings-
the raptor makes its kill
pouncing down at will...

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So swift, no sound
Like death bearing down
To carry the young one away

We all gave chase
At a desperate pace
But the Raptor
Was not brought to ground...

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When a raptor chases
a small bird, to hunt and feed on
the bird may win or lose.
- Survival of the fittest

When a bird chases
a raptor, to save her children
the bird will inevitably win
- The power of motherhood...

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a howling dawn wind
an owl screeched from the tree top ~
raptor rhapsody

rough river water
rapids tempt hungry eagles ~
dangerous prey dive

grey falcon feathers
hidden amongst forest pines ~
raven nesting raid

4/2/23...

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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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fox and rabbit raptor wings
earth and sky and hell -
god's forsaken dream

cut flowers spent upon the ground
leaves of brown and gold -
trusts in life anew

blue robin eggs lay waiting
red breast's warmth and love -
god redeems a pledge...

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- curiosity -
questions
imaginative
memories

- of -
the ravens raptor
remnant intelligent
existent world

- being -
as research oriented and
an imaginatively anticipating
tool maker with

- free will -
questioning
memories
of a changing world


stan sand...

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Tremble
by Michael R. Burch
 
Her predatory eye,
the single feral iris,
scans.
 
Her raptor beak,
all jagged sharp-edged thrust,
juts.
 
Her hard talon,
clenched in pinched expectation,
waits.
 
Her clipped wings,
preened against reality,
tremble.
 
Originally published by The Lyric...

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Preying mantis prays, 
“Thank you God for meat to eat.”
 licking raptor legs.


I Missed Carolyn's Contest, but here's a Preying Mantis haiku anyway.  I love preying mantis.  They are a 
gardener's helper since they eat insects.  And they are such fun to photograph.  Did you see the picture in my 
book, "100 Poems for Life"?...

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Towering 
As towers do
A monolithic mass 
Fills the canvas and the room
Green glass mountains
Deep and dark and without reflection
Draw you in and your gaze

Up

To a thread of eclipsed sky
Where burning 
In silhouette
Clings a raptor
To its man made crag




1/13/2020

Cityscape Poetry Contest
Sponsor Julia Ward...

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High and lucidly etched, a raptor,
feathers flickering in sunlight,
a thing carved,
branded in a window of space,
an osprey.

It plunges, strikes with clutching talons.
There on the face of the water
it seems to cleave
its own swooping shadow.

Then up it mounts the sky once more;
a shimmering fish
looks back at its last swim....

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Though a unique bird in the regular flock,
  I flew and fell at every block.
Sky is the pinnacle of my juvenile dreams.
  The one I fear, will soon feint in flames.
Watched as my bloods conquered the night.
  soaring to touch the pitch black sky.
Hope is waning as I end the verse.
  But my wings won't concede till I mount the hearse....

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Hawk Pursued by Squawk
Dark & White Mottled Flight,
Red Chasing Cardinal Instilling Fright,
Guarding Agin' Invasion Not Right.

Tiny vs. Awesome & Fearsome,
Courage Hear Ye All This Poem,
Able to Scourge, Raiders Stem.

Songbird Brave Hightails Raptor,
Saving Chicks From Certain Capture,
Watching 'Underbird' Prevail Brings Rapture!...

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Death
(andaree form)

This thief comes anytime of the day and night
With claws of raptor sharper than scythe
Grabbing us, loved ones or friends
Mortality ends
Soul departs
Hence
Lift our hearts
To God, He stays, tends
Transgressions, offenses mends
So that at hour of  death we find the light
This thief comes anytime of the day and night.


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A sky of angry screeching,
demanding;
like a raptor in the wind.
Doesn't have the impact
that simple warbling brings.

With fear of cruel words spoken,
love retracts,
like claws on birds of prey;
and all I loved about you
has now flown far away.

Predatory words can rip,
into beings
lovelorn at their peak.
Not accomplishing anything but
the sharpening of the beak....

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Soaring through the sky
Floating on air
Masquerading flight
Do what no others dare

Swooping, diving, falling
Screeching, hear your calling
Up on currents ever free
This is the eagles dream

Glory in flight
Wings of splendour
Vision in sight
Raptor in view

Swooping, diving, falling
Screeching, hear your calling
Up on currents ever free
This is the eagles dream...

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A high silhouette,
lucidly etched, a raptor,
feathers flickering in sunlight,
a thing carved 
and branded in a window of space,
an osprey.

It plunges, strikes the filmy dazzle
a bristle of talons,
and there on the face of the water
it cleaves its own swooping shadow.

Then it mounts the sky once more;
 a shimmering fish 
looks back
at its last swim....

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Drinking from the portrait 
of an alienated moon
in a self-taught remedy?

I was looking very
hurt in the muse,which
had failed the earth.

I wanted to say, my
sun was my sun,
broken, eclipse by eclipse.

Who was traitor to oneself ?
Sifting the leaves of a
raptor,to find the death

under the shade of
sundew, which blooms
when you become an insect.


Satish Verma...

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I watch the buzzard soar
Not a wing beat for a mile or more

Majestic in natural flight
A call that owns the skies

A carrion hunter it’s true
Living on a knife edge unlike me and you

Each day prey has to be found
Each day survival hard is bound

I watch the buzzard soar
It amazes each time the more

As much of nature as you or I 
Majestic raptor soaring through the sky....

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