Short Woodpecker Poems

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Premium Member Head Banger

A woodpecker, banging its head on the bark of oak tree as it feeds


Date written and posted: 06/23/2018
Form: Monoku


Premium Member All In

woodpecker demolitionist jackhammers tasty grubs shutting eyelids at impact so eyes don't pop out
© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Shadorma

Premium Member Black Woodpecker

a redhead with beak
tap-dancing on oak tree bark ~
the black woodpecker



Date written: 08/15/2021
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Happy Mood Swings

loud, cheerful chirping
        woodpecker swings from wind chime
                 with happy mood swings

Heidi Sands

7/2/22
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Where Is My Food

the loud woodpecker 
            swings on the empty feeder
                      yelling for his food


Heidi Sands

11/1/22
Form: Haiku


Premium Member Play Possum

wild possum plays dead
woodpecker knocks on green wood
willow weeps for both
wherever the carcass is
will the vulture there gather
Form: Tanka

Woodpecker and Ax

I am for the woodpecker
that bites with peak
a piece of wood...
I am not for the ax
that cuts down and destroy
the entire forest...

Premium Member Pinocchio

DONALD 
HAS A VERY BIG PET
AN ORANGE HEADED WOODPECKER 
WHO HE HAS NAMED PINOCCHIO
IS THAT JUST ANOTHER LIE
OR THE REASON FOR SO MANY

Resounding

Resounding 

Echoing pecking
Rapidly rapping tapping.
Woodpecker music.

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
March 13, 2010
Poetic form:  Haiku
Form: Haiku

Woodpecker

A woodpecker just loves to tap
The moment they go for a nap
The wife laughs, "Tee hee!
You're not fooling me!
I know its another bum rap!"
Form: Limerick

What Hammer Make This Sound

A Red woodpecker
Drilling a hole
Through the 
Tender bark of
The cider tree
Making sweet sap
Flow to the ground
What hammer make this sound

Premium Member The Woodpecker

A woodpecker pecks The sound resonates around Aluminum pole Fiercely crows disturbed roosters All sound waves combine
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Work

Staring blankly at an unblank spreadsheet. My paints, unspread, in the next room. A woodpecker bangs headlong into a frozen tree.

Premium Member Arrival Alert

There's a loud chirp chirp
                    as the large woodpecker speaks
                                       arrival alert

Heidi Sands

4/24/22
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Romulus Has Forgotten

You think you have problems? Romulus said.
A woodpecker made sure we were well-bred.
A she-wolf too
Ask Remus, you…
Forgetting he had struck his brother dead.
Form: Limerick

Whoops

There once was a bold picidae*
Who pounded his beak just for play
on a double-decker
bus, now his pecker
resembles a flawed fricassee

(*picidae - woodpecker)
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Drum Roll, Please---

a woodpecker drums
     from his perch on the high pole---

       cracks in the silence
          of a sunny afternoon
              echoes through a neighborhood
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Top of the World

woodpecker drumming echoes through a neighborhood... high rise pole dancing
................ In honor of Skat's "Top of the World" Contest
Form: Haiku

A Puppets Pet

Here's a story you might not have heard
About a puppet that owns his own bird
This is quite the brain wrecker
Pinocchio has a woodpecker
To me that just seems too obsurd!
© Pat Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Dear Hardworking Woodpecker

I admire the woodpecker  constancy
 for being admirer of botany
      in the oak branches pecking
      digging, looking for flecking
  without tiring peck,peck constantly

Premium Member Incessant Noise

The knock, knock, knocking; beak to bark, to wood beneath; noisy woodpecker; knock, knock, knocking all day long; my head, oh how it does pound.
Form: Tanka

In Sync

robins frolic leaves
swishing branch woodpecker beats-
rabbit hops in sync 



7th April 2020




Sponsor	Tania Kitchin
Contest A Haiku with Movement - Nature themed
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Number One House-Wrecker

I called out to a noisy woodpecker
You're surely my number one house-wrecker
   Come down from that tree
   And please visit me
Stop tapping ~ I'll teach you to play checkers
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Drill Drill Drill Eat Eat Eat

Drill drill drill
eat eat eat
drill drill drill
eat eat eat

watching a woodpecker is such a treat
drill drill dril
eat eat eat
digging out insects with his bill and his feet

Premium Member Woodpecker

oak tree breast it pecks
tapping resonant through air ~ 
spider spins its web


3/2/2022


H Forms - Traditional Nature Haiku Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Constance La France
© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

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