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How many poems can you think of where birds are either the main topic of the poem or they are given a mention.
Here is on example.This poem entitled "The Black Guillemot" was written by a local poet,Norman Nicholson OBE(1914-1987).His poetry is very stark and raw.Most of his poems are written about the hardship of the iron ore miners in the area and the local countryside,of both the lakes and the South Cumbrian coast.Here are two short extracts in which he mentions the nesting Guillemots at St Bees North Head Quote:
And down on one shelf,
Dozen on dozen pressed side by side together,
White breast by breast,
Beaks to the rock and tails to the fish stocked sea,
The Guillemots rest
I swing my binoculars into the veer of the wind,
Sight, now,fifty yards from shore,
That rarer Auk:all black,
But for two white patches where the wings join the back.
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Also two other well known poems,The Owl and the Pussycat,and of course The Lark.( cannot remember who wrote the latter.)
Here is on example.This poem entitled "The Black Guillemot" was written by a local poet,Norman Nicholson OBE(1914-1987).His poetry is very stark and raw.Most of his poems are written about the hardship of the iron ore miners in the area and the local countryside,of both the lakes and the South Cumbrian coast.Here are two short extracts in which he mentions the nesting Guillemots at St Bees North Head Quote:
And down on one shelf,
Dozen on dozen pressed side by side together,
White breast by breast,
Beaks to the rock and tails to the fish stocked sea,
The Guillemots rest
I swing my binoculars into the veer of the wind,
Sight, now,fifty yards from shore,
That rarer Auk:all black,
But for two white patches where the wings join the back.
UnQuote.
Also two other well known poems,The Owl and the Pussycat,and of course The Lark.( cannot remember who wrote the latter.)