Song Sparrow Poems

I was wondering when you will come, the year is almost done, and here I am in this place with little hope of joining the...

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Why stone the sparrow as she sings
                 To silence...

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One and three before the holy march
Comes fall comes rain far from the north
To The east comes before the march and
Might of the holy march...

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The faeries were enormously busy that wet spring
Coaxing, encouraging and begging a sparrow to sing.
He wore a hat with a cherry I think it was...

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Sparrow comforted the tiny faerie whose heart was broken.
She could not express her sorrow, it was almost unspoken.
But her hazel eyes screamed sadness, and there...

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Right at daybreak the sparrow starts
To quibble, heralding the day.
"Prick! Prick! He says in spurts
Like a vexed man having his say!
He deals out thoughts,
Slights and...

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dawn and all is still

as song sparrow sweetly sings -

flourishing a trill


Aug. 16, 2021...

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perched upon a twig
chirping away gloomy dawn ~
    cheerful lark sparrow



Songbirds Haiku Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Tania Kitchen
Bird chosen: Lark Sparrow
Date written: 08/14/2021...

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One drop fell down, one followed more
Then my count failed, free downpour
From two cloudy eyes, tears wishes feet
My lone miseries, life's endless beat.

On my bay,...

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Amazing Grace A Sparrow Died Today An Angel Unfolded Their Wings Sings   Aretha Louise Franklin  

A sparrow died today
An angel unfolded their wings
Break...

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WHAT morrow to drown in humid passion; a chance to glance 

The crowned one -- we hail the sparrow in regal fashion!

A bursting flutter like...

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(INSPIRED IN PART BY A SONG BY THE GREAT FRENCH 'SOUL SINGER', EDITH PIAF)


Should we praise the chanteuse
who sang "I regret nothing"?
Was she a saint...

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I walked upon a sparrow sitting on a limb,
her little feathers wet and mottled from a 
spring swim, she played and picked then 
shook her...

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No more flocks of sparrows
Covering my grass with brown
Very few song thrushes flying
Or bashing snails on the ground
I have seen a Robin redbreast
And a solitary...

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Sits content on the ridge cap 

of your roof, tweeting, mind fleeting

is happy to find a worm, a bug

cares not for the song 

of the...

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