THE BIRDS
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In the mountains it’s our tradition to delay our morning walk
so we can listen to the morning choir that begins promptly at six-o’clock.
Yes, at six-o’clock every morning without uttering a wor...
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Categories:
tanager, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Poet Bird
...Every poet is a bird,
bird that generally sings in a cage,
and such songs will be sad or not.
I'm a canary, at times a tanager. ..
Poet takes flight
and imagination becomes real,
there is ...
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Categories:
tanager, allegory, allusion, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
If Only I Could
...If only I could shake off long rigorous winter;
and embrace secret hidden in the cool of spring.
Enlivened by nature; the twitter sound of the Scarlet Tanager,
its red-orange and black feathers,...
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Categories:
tanager, nature, spring,
Form: Free verse
Waltzing Trees
...Blue-green splashes as you pull into the sea cliff curve.
I stop to view nature's rainbows through a glass swerve.
Watch the sparkling waterfalls, trees, stars, and sky.
What is more dazzling th...
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Categories:
tanager, analogy, appreciation, dream, earth,
Form: Couplet
Categories:
tanager, animal, bird, nature, poems,
Form: Haiku
A Foolish Trek To the Meadow
...The meadow has come alive with sight and sound
As I go through the gate, I hear buzzing all around,
The bees are busy working on milkweed flower
Waist-high daylilies and coral honeysuc...
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Categories:
tanager, animal, flower, insect, july,
Form: Couplet
Scarlet Tanager
...deep in the thicket
cheerful bird breaks into song ~
scarlet tanager
Date written: 07/03/2022...
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Categories:
tanager, bird, nature, song,
Form: Haiku
A Walk To the River
...A scarlet tanager sits primly on the rail
Of the new fence erected near the meadow,
He eyes me stroll as I take in every detail
The path to the woodland is rather narrow,
Infrequent...
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Categories:
tanager, bird, nature, tree,
Form: Quatrain
Kaleidoscopic Cosmos
...Bloom or bouquet or bunch or bare brief buttonhole,
Fresh or full-blown or nosegay or fresh posy role;
Flowers blossom in saucy slimy silkiness,
Seek them to be the same, is senile silliness.
R...
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Categories:
tanager, color, life, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
tanager, child, nature,
Form: Haiku
Panorama
...Mint leaf season vortex gilds sylvan glaze
vivid hue a scented purple ground mist
citrus brume float locus in dewdrop phase
cherry orchard fruit shoots hearthrob wish list
Gold grosbeak pecking...
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Categories:
tanager, adventure, art, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Sonnet
Birds Heralding Spring
..."Showers and sunshine slowly bring the deepening verdure o'er the earth; To put their foliage out, the woods are slack, And one by one the singing-birds come back."
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Categories:
tanager, bird, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Spring Notes
...SPRING NOTES
I don’t ask for the meaning of the song of a bird
or the rising of the sun on a misty morning.
There they are, and they are beautiful.
Pete Hamill
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Categories:
tanager, bird, song, spring,
Form: Shape
Wildly Beautiful
...summer tanager
a red streak into the wood
gold sunshine on green
amethyst evening
when the pale moon is glowing
weeping willow breeze
a pink and gold dream
cherry blossom petals fall
with...
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Categories:
tanager, bird, flower, nature, nice,
Form: Haiku
So Many Colorful Birds
...If you want a treat, look up the most colorful birds
Ever made by God, and you will come up with the best.
Paradise tanager, red-bearded bee-eater, macaw. My word!
What a fantastic creature in and...
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Categories:
tanager, bird,
Form: Rhyme
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