Bird Poems

Robin 
Robin

Bolding about
the freshly turned garden,
Drilling at worm
and centipede,
Picking over
hand raked soil,
Unruffled
in your clock hopping ...

To Fly Away 
To Fly Away

"We're here, we're here," cried the baby birds
to their mother who perched on high.
"We were so afraid when we left ...

No titles here -Haiku and Tanka 
hummingbird

fast dancing in flight

vibrating in air

like the helicopter

blade in precise rotation



moonlight
...

Mourning for Doves 
Morning, Dove!

Mama Dove-

Oh boy!

Such Joy!

So close

So sure

So safe

So secure.

Too cute – two cute!

So soft

So sweet

So ...

Bird Words 
The sanctuary of a back porch lounge
My place of rest and contemplation
Each morning I sit with contentment
Enjoying the feathered serenade

The ...

Pipit's Nest 
One Sunday evening in mid May
A bright though fairly breezy day
The wind blown grass did nod and sway
As through lush green mead I trod my way.

As ...

A Little Glimpse of God 

Outside my frosty windowsill
Sat a little red bird so sweet and still.
He cocked his head and blinked his eyes,
As I watched in wonder and surprise....

Black Sky! 

BLACK SKY!

A million birds come by our house to sleep through every night
Then they wake up and fly back out by clusters when its light
First there ...

On The Wings Of A Dove 

I stood in the parlor
watching their arrival
as they sought a safe home
to ensure their hatchlings survival

They flew in and out
returning each ...

Backyard Vacation 

I sit here and gaze at God's blue sky
With white puffy clouds drifting by
And the vibrant green of grass and trees
And the flowers all bowing in ...

A Mourning Dove 


A Mourning dove
sent from above
hear them cooing
in the morning light
for ones that suffered
or did not make it
through the night
to soothe ...

Buffleheads 
BUFFLEHEADS


I love to see them on the waves,
Along the beach, or in their trees.
I love to watch them fly away,
Without a running start,...

Parrots 
Parrots are a funny bunch −
They often curse and swear −
You really cannot take them out to lunch
When your grandmamma is there.

They ...

House Wren-Poem  Not rated yet
To bring house wrens to your yard
is a job that's not too hard.
Hang a bird-house from a tree,
and in April you might see
not just one wren but a pair
...

This Poem is for the Birds  Not rated yet
Mad as a wet hen, a little bird told me, "It's a fowl thing for poems that reference us
to be as scarce as hen's teeth and it would be
a feather in ...

Sunning  Not rated yet
Though camouflaging with the floating log,
Reptilian roundness cannot quite disguise,
As morning rays break through the morning fog,
Two traveling ...

Return Of The Lapwing  Not rated yet
It's been years don't know how long nor I'll not lie
And that's going back to when I was a boy
When last I saw the wandering bird lapwing
One cold and ...

The Black Face Cuckoo Shrike  Not rated yet
You know that bird the black face cuckoo shrike
He's one who does not have a look alike
In darkened face and cloak of silvery gray
I see them often ...

The Cardinals Are Singing  Not rated yet
The eastern rosella on sunlit wattle tree
As beautiful a wild bird as one might wish to see
But back home in America there's prettier bird than he
The ...

The Willy Wagtails  Not rated yet
They like the open country sparse in trees
And spend their day hours chasing flies and bees
From fencing post they seldom venture far
And you'll always ...

Helpfull Birds  Not rated yet

birds are never alone
never sad
always tight together
if one gets ill two of the birds call for help
one looks after,
one calls for help
always ...

The Goldfinch Comes  Not rated yet
there was one tree always silence,

when spring was came
a bird come to there
bird build a nest at end of branch
it was black, eyes are very light
...

Secrets  Not rated yet
Early in the mornings,
The hummingbirds would come.

They'd whirl and spin around his head
Like planets round the sun.

They'd perch upon his earlobes
...

Butterflies Dust  Not rated yet


I see butterflies every day,
sometimes they take my breath away.

Flying so, so, high in the sky
leaving their dust behind.

They shower the ...