Short Wood Pigeon Poems

Roast pheasant in cider sauce
Wood pigeon salad
Parmesan crusted chicken
with Baked chicory
Sweet apple brulee
Bon-bons and
Beer!...

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Wildlife 28

A plumpish wood pigeon called Sue,
Thought it sexy to bill and to coo,
So she zoomed to the ground,
Where she pranced round and round,
Then flew off 'cos she wanted a poo!...

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munching with my mate
   buxom burgundy berries
   autumn pigeon date



( I have a red guava tree which the wood pigeons love, eating 30 berries in one go - just swallow after swallow. Usually leave all fruit for them.)...

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THE CYNICISM OF DISILLUSION or Perhaps Hamlet was right.

Disillusion frames the drama of our lives
As we lurch through props and sets with pratfalls tripped
Wood Pigeon soars to self applause and then subsides 
Fine woven fabric inadvertently is ripped
Why essay to climb the peak, perchance the ending
Where demise succeeds your rise, while descending

16 February 2019...

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Looking Forward

I'm looking forward 
to wood pigeon call
that waits for spring mornings
and moonshine apple blossom
there long before the light
sugared dawn with coffee
a warm kindness in the glasshouse
the cats irritating company
and doggy indifference
I'll hum as I move 
summer might be all well and fine
but it's a gift already opened
I'll look toward spring
and those tightly bound promises...

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Suddenly my sense of hearing awakened by  
just three sounds

…. the rasping call of a wood pigeon outside
 somewhere

…. the low constant hum of my fridge
 in the kitchen, nearby

…. heavy footsteps, on creaking floorboards 
in the corridor
 
Another day, I would have called these noises 
 disturbance

instead, just then
serenity cradled my troubled soul 
in her silken arms 
she lulled me into an unfamiliar place called calm

in that moment 
just then 
peace....

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