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:
vireo, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Aw My Feathered Friends
...This is my humble tribute to our dear Soup member Constance La France, using some of her poem titles. This is, again, inspired by the "Title Wave" contest that was sponsored by our Soup member Richa...
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Categories:
vireo, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Summer Has Begun: Concert In Yellow
...The distant brass haystacks tune on shorn ground.
Vanilla fence posts chime in saffron sun.
Adjacent jonquils trumpet lemon sound
as amber goldenrod and china mums
in stil de grain complete a tr...
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Categories:
vireo, farm, garden, summer,
Form: Quatorzain
The Bird Vireo
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high in the forest
a little songster of songs
such sweet phrases and pauses
(chattering, rambling, warbling)
hops along branches
hidden in the canopy
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Categories:
vireo, bird,
Form: Sedoka
The Abcs of Things Green
...The ABCs of Things Green
Algae, alligator, artichoke, asparagus, aphids, Andradite,
Brussels sprouts, broccoli, Buffalo Treehopper, and beans,
Cuckoo Wasp, Cabbage, cucumber, Common Green Darner...
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Categories:
vireo, bird, food, fruit,
Form: Abecedarian
Journey Companions: the Friend Sonnets Part Ii
...HEROES
Near somber guards, units of children heap
dead leaves, naive to any else fallen.
Friend, you chuckle, but your posture speaks
of duty on this day of contradictions.
Firefighters bow...
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Categories:
vireo, friend, hero, places, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
In Stereo
...Disappearing black caped vireo
Sound better viewed in stereo
By Robb A. Kopp
All Rights Reserved © MMX...
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Categories:
vireo, animals, nature
Form: Crystalline
Bright-Green Leaves
...Inside the forest's sea-of-green,
Sits a hungry, bright-scarlet tanager.
Eating one caterpillar after another,
In minutes he gulps down thirty-five.
Doing its part to help the forest,
Ridding the...
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Categories:
vireo, animals, children, nature, science,
Form: Free verse