This a thread for making poems about birds. Here's my sora poem:
Shy, secretive and sonorous.
Onerously I occasion to observe.
Reserved in the reeds, a recluse!
An abstruse avian assuredly.
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Posted 22 September 2012 - 04:28 AM
I love how your rhymed the last word of each line with the first of the next one!
This is about chickens, but they are birds, right?
The old white paint is flaking
Off the picket fence that's staking
Out the barnyard 'round our waking
Farmhouse door.
And the hens, with wattles shaking
Are contentedly partaking
Of the corn the rooster's raking
Off the floor.
This is about chickens, but they are birds, right?
The old white paint is flaking
Off the picket fence that's staking
Out the barnyard 'round our waking
Farmhouse door.
And the hens, with wattles shaking
Are contentedly partaking
Of the corn the rooster's raking
Off the floor.
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Posted 22 September 2012 - 05:02 AM
I might as well put MY Sora poem on from our chat last night!
King Of the Marsh
A light footed ghost of the reeds and the swamps,
His long spindled toes serve him well.
He glides with an ease through his forests and haunts,
Where he'll be next, we never will tell.
King Of the Marsh
A light footed ghost of the reeds and the swamps,
His long spindled toes serve him well.
He glides with an ease through his forests and haunts,
Where he'll be next, we never will tell.
Good timber does not grow with ease:
The stronger wind, the stronger trees.
The further sky, the greater length,
The more the storm, the more their strength.
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Posted 22 September 2012 - 03:17 PM
Now I really want to see a Sora even more!
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Posted 23 September 2012 - 04:44 AM
Now I really want to see a Sora even more!
You mean, mora.
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Posted 23 September 2012 - 04:15 PM
A haiku on this theme?
Don't yell, show yourself
You are flipping hard to find
You lousy Sora
Edit: There, I found an accompanying photograph!
Don't yell, show yourself
You are flipping hard to find
You lousy Sora
Edit: There, I found an accompanying photograph!
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Posted 23 September 2012 - 06:52 PM
Birdie Birdie in the sky dropped some whitewash in my eye I,m not mad i don't cry I'm just glad that cows don't fly
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Posted 26 September 2012 - 03:38 PM
Moon light, moon bright
The first owl I see tonight
I wish I may, I wish I might
Snap a pic 'fore you take flight
The first owl I see tonight
I wish I may, I wish I might
Snap a pic 'fore you take flight
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Posted 06 October 2012 - 04:12 PM
My haiku:
low tide visitor
exploding flock of white gulls
paw prints dent the sand
Yea, yea. It's probably more about the pawed animal (dog? coyote?) but hey, it's got gulls so it qualifies, right?
low tide visitor
exploding flock of white gulls
paw prints dent the sand
Yea, yea. It's probably more about the pawed animal (dog? coyote?) but hey, it's got gulls so it qualifies, right?
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Posted 08 October 2012 - 03:37 PM
I'm pretty sure there was a thread like this a while ago....
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Posted 08 October 2012 - 04:32 PM
Birdie Birdie in the sky dropped some whitewash in my eye I,m not mad i don't cry I'm just glad that cows don't fly
I'm not sure if you were trying to say YOU made this up or not, because this poem has existed since the 60s...
http://www.playgroun...s-dont-fly.html
Good timber does not grow with ease:
The stronger wind, the stronger trees.
The further sky, the greater length,
The more the storm, the more their strength.
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Posted 08 October 2012 - 05:41 PM
birdie birdie in the sky goes back even further i first heard it in the early 1940's when i was a young kid. i just posted it because it was cute and i'm lucky i even remember stuff from 70 years ago. G.I.'s brought it home with them from the second world war in the 40's along with others and there was a marching tune that they used.
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Posted 10 October 2012 - 04:40 PM
Well, it was in different styles before then I think. It started in Britain I think. Well, thanks for giving me an adorable poem to hum now! 
Good timber does not grow with ease:
The stronger wind, the stronger trees.
The further sky, the greater length,
The more the storm, the more their strength.
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