My husband's poetry

Category: Birds

  • Home

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    Yellow and pink flowers, red camellias, Bright green pine needles on the end of a bough, Turtles sun on mud bank, Heron flies into the morning, Grey tabby stalks in tall grass Wind in trees tell me to stay 2-23-23

  • Intercalary days

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    Today is a day for giving of gifts a time before the fast before the new year solstice. Chickens cackle in their cage, birds call back and forth in trees. I imagine them comparing the freedom of the woods and the safety of a restrained life. I have known both and long for safety, when…

  • After the downpour

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    All day and all night the rain washed pollen from the air. Maybe the world will breath a little easier. In the downpour frogs still call, “Over here, over here, I am all alone,” sounds of love within the flood. Listen to the thrashing in rain, while Dow Jones swirls in the drain on its…

  • Silent night

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    cfblack
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    in early evening frogs call back and forth back and forth among the trees late at night frogs go quiet and only the moon and stars ask questions of the trees did their voices give out or did they give in and talking is no longer needed? 4-14-25

  • Questions for my ancestor

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    When did the first fish crest spy the shore and believe dry land was an option? And how many generations before that first step and how many more generations until cruise ships became all the rage? 4-14-25

  • Birdwatching with Ruth Westheimer

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    mockingbirds are monogamous according to ornithologists mockingbirds are masters of mimicry according to ornithologists mockingbirds must practice role play inferred by ornithologists 3-27-25

  • haiku from our daughter’s front porch

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    squirrels twerk on fence chickens cackle good morning voyeur sun in trees 2-21-23

  • home

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    by

    cfblack
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    Yellow and pink flowers, red camellias, Bright green pine needles on the end of a bough, Turtles sun on mud bank, Heron flies into the morning, Grey tabby stalks in tall grass Wind in trees tell me to stay 2-23-23

  • Intercalary days

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    cfblack
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    Today is a day for giving of gifts a time before the fast before the new year solstice. Chickens cackle in their cage, birds call back and forth in trees. I imagine them comparing the freedom of the woods and the safety of a restrained life. I have known both and long for safety, when…

  • Carolina Spring tanka

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    cfblack
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    squinting in bright warm sunlight, bright pink azalea, horny green lizard on fence, yellow pollen slime on pond. 3-4-23