Life Woodpecker Poems

February 27th Lower Peninsula of Michigan
One week of true cold and snow is all
This year
Today is the warmest day ever recorded
For this entire month

An ancient...

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Gleaming golden ball revealing pines
Dark silhouettes against the jet-streaked sky
Roosters crow the sun up as doves coo refrain
Life seems simple salubrious as fledglings fly

That ole...

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cringing
beaten
slumped over
nightmares 
of revenge --
STRANGLE him
hug mother
for dear life!-- 
startling awake
nauseous
sweaty
woodpecker foot
relentlessly taps
not my fault
don't hit me...
dinner table food
spasming 
mangled by 
screams, curses
roars its way
back...

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A woodpecker, flew straight at him,
Its sharp beak, stuck in his head
Then it flew back up to its nest
As for him, "He'll live!", the doc...

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as natures music fills the early morning woodland,
i feel its rapturous intent, to add movement to life.
the tiny Jenny wren, a virtuoso, powerful its song!
nature...

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At the far end
of the ward sat Dan
	his legs gone.
Ulcerated, so much pain, 
	and waiting
for many weeks,
	he'd said, “Yes”
to the surgeon.
	Legless now
he sat waiting for...

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Woodpecker, woodpecker
Pecking on the wood
Woodpecker, woodpecker
Live a life that’s good

Peck away, peck all day
Always peck that wood
Peck away, peck every day
Live the life that’s good

Woodpecker,...

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A cute woodpecker
Is hammering with its beak
A coconut tree....

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A coconut tree –
A woodpecker hammers it
To build her sweet nest!...

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does woodpecker know

whether many insects hide

in each branch he climbs

 

(January 29, 2011 Wausau, Wisconsin)

(c) Copyright 2011 by Christine A Kysely, All Rights Reserved...

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I keep pecking at the tree of life
Only finding the bugs of strife.
No nourishment for my aching heart
No detailed map or starry chart.

Pieces of bark...

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