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Tanager Poems - Poems about Tanager

Premium MemberTHE 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



Premium MemberIf 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

Premium MemberWaltzing 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

Premium MemberScarlet Feathers

...scarlet feathers
among birch branches
tanager

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Categories: tanager, animal, bird, nature, poems,
Form: Haiku



Premium MemberA 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

Premium MemberScarlet 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

Premium MemberA 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

Premium MemberKaleidoscopic 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.

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Categories: tanager, color, life, universe,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTanager

...orange
on the Tanager's throat
child laughing...
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Categories: tanager, child, nature,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberPanorama

...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

Premium MemberSpring 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

Premium MemberWildly 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

Premium MemberSo 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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