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Starling Poems - Poems about Starling

Premium Member The Starling
When I was small the starlings roosted one by one on grandma’s party line wire (like jittery black clothespins) to bandy their gossip back and forth until the wire hummed with their inanities. By luck my slingshot found its mark. One toppled from the wire soundlessly like a clothespin blown loose in the wind. The others rattled on, oblivious, no questions asked. It dropped straight down. I ran...

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Categories: starling, bird, childhood, death,
Form: Free verse
Starling
A meteor crashed into heather, They reacted together, Not much later that night, A young starling took flight....

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Categories: starling, fantasy,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Susurration Shifts
susurration shifts jet cumuli passerines~ starlings flight sculpture ...

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Categories: starling, animal, appreciation, beautiful, bird,
Form: Senryu
Starling Murmuration
Twisting, turning, swooping, SWIRLING Starlings just before dusk Forms patterned cloud ILLUSION Coming together as single Thousand minds as one Act in an instant Who trains them all? Who leads them all? RUSTIC charm of birding Brings rare joy sighting SILENCE seems to EMANATE In ambience of forest SYNTHETIC life in city Never helps to BLOSSOM TIMELESS calm of Nature - A price above priceless. ...

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Categories: starling, bird, nature,
Form: Verse
Starling on an Electric Power Line
Lined up they perch in spaced formation, ready to take fright and scatter should a roving hawk approach too near. I don't know why they seem insulated from the deadly current, or why they make such a reckless target for the raptors. A cat looks at them from a city pavement. I do know what it is thinking. The differing spaces between the starlings could be musical notations. A...

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Categories: starling, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Starlicide
a coat of stars on a shiny night you wear and thrive in #'s (almost) everywhere Mozart taught you to sing everything recite poetry and greet those who stumbled in you are precious to me yet so hated they patent your name for poison and rage Starlicide now half of what you were your murmurations still smoke the sky just not here this year my dear my darling Starling...

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Categories: starling, bird, longing,
Form: Free verse
Starling
gleaming feathers shine whilst the songbird sweetly sings - a melodic tune --------- Songbird haiku Poetry Contest Starling 8/18/2021...

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Categories: starling, bird, song,
Form: Haiku
A Starling Storm Surprise
we are the gray ghost of a giant storm with hands like a hurricane in a starling swarm surprise...

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Categories: starling, image, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Murmerations
Squeaks shrieks and whistling chirps mixed with mimicry, colourful spotted speckled iridescent darlings Pixilated torturous waves at dusk mesmerising murmurations escaping the day starlings, self-pursued sardines of the sky flowing contorting distorting, fly....

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Categories: starling, bird, nature, sky,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 4 Starling Poems For the Price of None
(1) starlings dodging a blue hole (2) starlings...

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Categories: starling, bird,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member The Starling of Spring With Shakespearean Subplot
Plucked from Shakespeare and plopped in Central Park, Sturnus vulgaris, the mimic, conquered New York. It made it there, You know it made it everywhere; The continental stage stolen. And here on my fence amid this tragedy To be blessed with a modicum of bliss; The sparkling spring songster with his treasured chest pumping my missing birds song list. 22.04.18 Craig Cornish's Spring -...

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Categories: starling, bird, history, spring,
Form: Free verse
Starling Murmuration
Starling Murmuration 'Neath Nimbus Dark Eerie sings Nature's Acrobats Million wings Splendour reigns Cascades crash Aeriel Ballet Swooping splash Mesmerising movement Semaphore Correlation Phenomenon splendid Starling Murmuration thank you...

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Categories: starling, adventure, animal, beautiful, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Starling Pecker
Parked at the lake where we surely were't strangers A Starling momma thought her babies were in danger She flew at my head Pecking away to my dread Till I ran in terror trying to save my old brainer...

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Categories: starling, surreal,
Form: Limerick
The Starling Song
One day a Starling did speak with his brother He twittering and whistled ten minutes or more On and on about preening and bees, About sly cats that hide in the trees How he lost brown bread by the blue porch 'twas a small piece he said, seriously, not much The wind pushed and pulled at one feather Life was...

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Categories: starling, imagination, sorrow,
Form: I do not know?
Starling
Little starling, perched in your woody heights, kneading thy wet wings, and gloating with song ----- Then flying off to some far shore: Is it envy that I feel?...

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Categories: starling, flying, freedom, metaphor, nature,
Form: Light Verse

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