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Short Terns Poems

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


Premium Member Wind Vane Terns
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a flock of terns
face headlong into the wind --
compliant wind vanes...

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Categories: terns, bird, wind,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Wind Vane Flock
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black capped terns in flock
line-up all pointing seaward
twenty-one wind vanes...

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Categories: terns, nature,
Form: Haiku
Snow Birds
waving
to the
cardinals
jays and
juncos

waking
to terns
frigate
birds and
pelicans...

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Categories: terns, muse,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Panama City Beach Impressions
breeze wafting ashore surf invades beach's white sand angry terns squawking
Written May 6, 2021 in Panama City Beach, Florida...

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Categories: terns, beach, nature,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Summer Slips Slowly
Summer slips slowly, sullenly southward
Together the terns try taking their turns
Under unusually ubiquitous umber umbrellas
Versatile velocity verified via villagers
While winter welcomed withering weather.

HONORABLE MENTION
written October 7, 2021
"Alliteration and Assonance" Contest
All Poetry - October 11, 2021...

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Categories: terns, bird, change, seasons, summer, winter,
Form: ABC



Watching Terns
From boat's mass thrown up
Wings fondling light and wonder
The fish shudders awe

I caught in splendour
Net my eyes in white of wings
And sea frightened thawed

So water rippled
The sea in sunshine trembling
Against departure

They turned, flashed in dive
The sun made coronet bright
On feathers waving

True there was a cry
In self praise for pain un-groaned
Just for Leda's sake....

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Categories: terns, nature, sea, sea,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Serenade of Whispering Wings
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Lakeside at dawn,
all is calm, quiet, but expectant.
Then, peeping from the silence,
barely discernible
is the sound of whispering wings 
stuttering a plaintive beat, intermittent.
It is the flock of fairy terns soaring together 
in wavy, gliding flight formation,
just above the sand, just above the waves
returning to their lakeside roost,
to gossip, cheep, squabble and rest....

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Categories: terns, bird, flying,
Form: Free verse
Cape Dreams
summer burns a lazy haze into the mind
Of seaming endless days enjoyed
The sea warms to a silk sun touch
Rolling on hot sandy beaches
Curling surf bursts boils and bubbles
Froth afloat and running swiftly
Then left on sand to disappear
Before the next caress
shells and stones all roll in water
Dancing with the tempo's sound
Falling  tidal songstress whispers 
coastal breezes hum along
Gulls and terns are singing background
To a lazy Summer Song...

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Categories: terns, music, nature, nostalgia, sea, seasons,
Form: I do not know?

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