Short Red Winged Blackbird Poems

a red winged blackbird 
barked a sermon
from a cattail pulpit...

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perched on purple coneflower, red-winged blackbird darkens nest

5/31/2018

*darkens - makes less clear...

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rock to rock
       small sips

                  red winged blackbird takes

leaning towards the sun, 
Iris protects....

seed to seed
      small sips

                  bluegill takes

below the surface,
shadows protect....

bar to bar
      small sips
                  humans take

battered and bruised,
memories protect.......

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Two Red Pines outside my
Window stand ready every day

Bristling with long needles
And runkled cones, still young

My first sound upon awakening
…..The sweet seeee---sawww
Of the Red Winged Blackbird,
Migrating home

Soon, the swamp I navigate daily 
On my walk will fill with
Feathered friends-

All of us excited by emerging
Cattails….

Comforted, together


03/04/12...

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The call of the Lark
 And the Red-Winged Blackbird
          The rustle of grass
        Over my left shoulder
                      And
                 Before us
          The rippling brook
       The shimmering trees
                      And
     The depth of you silence
                   As you
              Not far away
       Think on other things

     This I take back with me
      To the noise of the city...

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a red-winged blackbird
quiescent as a flower
until he's riled up

the breeze of his wings
majestic, dictorial
tourist nudged onward

depressed cone flower
with heaviness of his form
far above the nest

the sentry's hawk-eyes
sharp and alert to movement
in city's garden 

meanwhile the gal
shares her snapshot and story
over and over

the beauty and rage
of this handsome specimen
illuminated

3/8/2019...

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the prickly-eyed coneflower bees
attractively buzzing their squeeze.
the purple petal umbrellas.
a lovely echinacea breeze.

butterflies and hummingbirds hove’.*
red-winged blackbird, high perched above,
does shelter in Eden, his brood.
cones teem with life, vivacious love.

8/24/2022
Eight Lines of Rhyme - Your Favorite Flower
Sponsor: Tania Kitchin
Rhymes checked with rhymezone
aaba rhyme scheme

*hove’ - hover...

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It snowed last night
and spring’s nascent shades
were hidden under a sky of lead,
the cedars, green, cloaked
by a blanket of snow white
framed by tree trunks black.
The swollen stream ran brown not clear,
but the dogwood glistened shiny red
and the Red-winged Blackbird
flared his epaulets of scarlet and yellow
and with his conk-la-ree! loudly proclaimed
his territory in hopes of attracting
a frumpy female who yet malingers
in warmer climes....

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