Sitting on the Porch
...something small almost imperceptible is crawling across the porch
I have to get closer to see it; it is a tiny bug, so small it has no color
I wonder if my dogs have noticed; but they are asleep, n...
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Categories:
turkey buzzard, animal,
Form: Narrative
fowl alarm
...falcon
hawk
vulture
eagle?
no matter
rooster sounds the alarm
chickens scatter
clucking up a storm
uh-oh
I note the red head
turkey buzzard
something is dead...
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Categories:
turkey buzzard, bird,
Form: Free verse
Insanity Floated Through the Door
...Insanity floated through the door
An aberration with wild hair entered
Her mouth was open, blood ran out
Down her tunic, past her belt
She felt deranged, a lunatic from where?
There was a madn...
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Categories:
turkey buzzard, scary,
Form: Free verse
they do not want money
...Airmail via turkey buzzard, why not? Someone didst ask.
They are so ugly with their posteriors awful, decreed Cousin Mask.
But they can fly, so they avoid the traffic, which puts them in a great mo...
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Categories:
turkey buzzard, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Who Is the Ugliest At the Ugly Bug Ball
...Who is the ugliest at the ugly bug ball?
Is it the hideous gnat or giraffe so tall?
Could it be that spitting camel with the ugly hump?
Or the orangutan with the butt that makes us jump?
Mayhap...
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Categories:
turkey buzzard, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
The Real Intimidator
...I strutted a bit on my branch as I surveyed the others
They were commoners mostly songbirds, and two of my brothers.
Is that a great horn? A beautiful red cardinal asked in a trill.
I knew my sta...
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Categories:
turkey buzzard, 10th grade, 4th grade,
Form: Personification
Tasty Road Kill
...moist raccoon remnants
freshly murdered this morning
by a passing car
wild knows wild
a turkey buzzards sweet feast
tasty road kill stew...
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Categories:
turkey buzzard, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Senryu
Lying In the Sun On a Warm Day
...The roosters are in full glory crowing mode today.
Some dogs are challenging them now.
Between the barks and the ruffs and the coos and the caws
it is difficult to hear the traffic on the intersta...
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Categories:
turkey buzzard, feelings, happiness, summer,
Form: Free verse