nice starling couple
living African jewels
shiny neat blue-green!
on little insects
the amethyst starling feeds ~
violet hue haunts
whistles, trills, mimics
for territory and love ~
nature's purple gem
starling stereo
crisp and clear early morning
set to full volume
weighty wings arise
marvelous and maddening
at verge of daybreak
metallic green head
metallic violet blue!
golden breast starling
on my spring walk
I met a bird ~~
and stopped to talk
he was pretty
with mottled wings
and tweet ditty
long trills and clicks
a loud chatter
melody mix
and then he flew
into the trees ~~
and a breeze blew
A meteor crashed into heather,
They reacted together,
Not much later that night,
A young starling took flight.
susurration shifts
jet cumuli passerines~
starlings flight sculpture
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.
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 language just for cats and hawks,
played loudly,
on a blank sheet of sky.
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
gleaming feathers shine
whilst the songbird sweetly sings -
a melodic tune
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Songbird haiku Poetry Contest
Starling
8/18/2021
we
are the
gray ghost of
a giant storm
with
hands like a hurricane
in a
starling swarm surprise
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.
(1) starlings dodging a blue hole
(2) starlings dodging the blue in the sky
(3) starlings dodging starlings
(4) starlings dodging blue eyes
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 - Poetry Contest
3rd Place
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