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    Birds and poetry

    Belloc's poems are certainly fun and right up there with Dr. Seuss!
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    Jeffers' "Rock and Hawk" Rock And Hawk Here is a symbol in which Many high tragic thoughts Watch their own eyes. This gray rock, standing tall On the headland, where the seawind Lets no tree grow, Earthquake-proved, and signatured By ages of storms: on its peak A falcon has perched...
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    Purrsonally Speaking In this world of hustle-bustle You may have your this and that; But there's nothing quite so pleasing As the purring of a cat. ~ Marcy Stewart Froemke ~ For more cat poems, you can find a large selection here: http://www.sniksnak.com/poems.html Sorry to hear about your...
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    I totally agree, Steve. Wordsworth always had it right! :clap:
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    It still amazes me how many poets and others include birds or bird imagery in their writing. Glad you all liked the last poem (Why is the sky blue?). My cousin continues to send me the challenge themes she receives in her writing group, and she usually wants me to give her an example. It...
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    Bascar, Ah, I have a very good Welsh friend who always says that Wales is a grey country. It may seem so if you've ever visited anywhere such as Oklahoma where the sky really is blue, with only an occasional grey day. Anyway, when I wrote the poem, I was playing off the idea of a grey country...
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    Here's another "train" sort of poem, which I don't suppose has much to do with birds: Shades of Gray (from a train in Wales) lush green meadows ochre yellow gorse punctuate the sentences of gray stone walls ranging from silver white rock to blackened slate as if an artist smudged charcoal...
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    Steve, Thanks for the lovely poems with trains as a metaphor. I've spent many hours of traveling by train, mostly very pleasant hours in the U.K. and some not so pleasant hours aboard a train in Eastern Europe! I especially liked the Richards poem "Girl in a Train." The image of...
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    I ran onto this recently, scanned the lists of already posted poems, so I hope I'm not repeating one. I found this one by Eliot to offer good examples of Eliot's sense of humor. SWEENEY AMONG THE NIGHTINGALES by: T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) PENECK Sweeney spreads his knees Letting his arms hang...
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    Birds and poetry

    I did indeed add an extra "is" in error. Sorry. I tried to go back and edit, but there is no way to do so. Cheers!
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    Thanks to all, and mostly to those who've introduced me to Norman Nicholson's poetry. I really do like many of his poems I've seen here, and he's not well known (or many not all known) in the U.S. Here's another poet that you may know, but I didn't see anything listed that's been posted. I...
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    Birds and poetry

    Merry Christmas to All!
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    Birds and poetry

    scfmerlin--I live in Oklahoma--in the central southern plains states--the one that was called Indian Territory and became a state just 100 years ago--we've celebrated the centennial all year! It's where the wind comes sweeping down the plain and all that--if you're familiar with the Rogers and...
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    Birds and poetry

    Ice Storm Thanks all for the welcome here--I think I meant to say that before but forgot. Anyway, where I live, we've had a pretty devastating ice storm; nonetheless, there is always hope that comes out such a time. To that end, I've drafted a bit of a poem--nothing like Neruda or...
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    Birds and poetry

    Ode to Bird Watching by Pablo Neruda Ode To Bird Watching ~ Now Let's look for birds! The tall iron branches in the forest, The dense fertility on the ground. The world is wet. A dewdrop or raindrop shines, a diminutive star among the leaves. The morning time mother earth is...
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    God gave a loaf to every bird --Dickinson And one more by Dickinson, while I'm here. God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me; I dare not eat it, though I starve,-- My poignant luxury To own it, touch it, prove the feat That made the pellet mine,-- Too happy in my sparrow chance...
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    Birds and poetry

    A Bird Came Down the Walk -- Dickinson I looked at the list on page 66, and couldn't believe that Emily Dickinson's poem "A Bird Came Down the Walk" hadn't yet been posted! A bird came down the walk: He did not know I saw; He bit an angle-worm in halves And ate the fellow, raw. And then...
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    Birds and poetry

    At this time of year, I always think of Thomas Hardy's poem "The Darkling Thrush": The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-gray, And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day. The tangled bine-stems scored the sky...
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