Specimens
...Specimens
A Large Fluffy Skunk
With A Fluffy Extra
Two-Thirds Of A
Developing Clone…
Charmed And Excited
Feasting On Random
Squirrel Food
Left Out At
Midnight.
I Don’t Know
Where The...
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Categories:
towhee, life,
Form: Free verse
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:
towhee, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Stranded In Bittercold Without Food Or Drink
...Stranded in bittercold without food or drink...
Though the following
twittering scenario quite absurd,
methought diehard adherents of mine
(intimation also quite far-fetched),
some unnamed rea...
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Categories:
towhee, absence, adventure, animal, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Stranded Courtesy Bittercold Without Food Or Drink
...Stranded courtesy bittercold without food or drink
Dire straits necessitated
yours truly to bethink
outside the box (literally outdoors
of squarish structured nested dwelling),
where blinding ...
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Categories:
towhee, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Early Morning
...Early morning shivers
Steadied by steaming tea
Sweetening my tongue
Warming me
The Towhee is calling
telling me to drink my tea
I tell him I have
Stop pestering me
The morning sky is cri...
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Categories:
towhee, environment, morning,
Form: Quatrain
Hungry Thief
...For the first time ever,
a Cardinal's nest lay cleverly hidden
in a juncture of two branches
of the red rose climber
on the south wall of our garage.
Over the years, we'd watched with pleasure...
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Categories:
towhee, baby, bird, death, grief,
Form: Free verse
Backyard Birds 01
...Long, weather-vane tail—
Brown Towhee, a Plain Jane bird,
Homebody—home here...
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Categories:
towhee, beauty, bird, creation, feelings,
Form: Haiku
Look Up, Look Around
...An eagle sits in the cedar,
Another is soaring nearby.
If he hadn't called I'd have missed them.
I just wouldn't look that high.
A rufous towhee is searching
For seed that's been spilled on th...
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Categories:
towhee, thank you,
Form: Rhyme