Gift Drop
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Pigeons soft cooing
Dropping presents from the sky
Ducking, is futile
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Brisk Bend
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Brown branches swaying
Wind takes flight and passes bird
Bending, not breaking
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Floating
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Thin air rushes by
No arms, but strong wings of sky
Flying over you
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Holding Pattern
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Around and around
Drunken bird with broken wing
Waiting, your beacon
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Pass the Bird
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Train strains up the hill
Tortuous, continues all the day
Bird passes them still
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Cold Rest
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The owls know the time
Winter doesn't mean cold heart
I will keep you warm
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Snow
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It is quiet.
A whisper tickles my ear.
Fluffy thin wisps of winter are here.
White is my color.
One prickling part of the sun shimmers down.
Liquid life is spilt on the ground.
Two sharp eyed eagles are floating aloft
Looking for little things that are soft.
And I remember.
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Tree
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Old tree of life upon the hill
Bent and knarled, but living still:
Full of moments-frozen-time,
Deaf but hearing, sights while blind.
Shelter on the bald sharp rock
Shade in summer, warmth in frost:
Full of birds--squirrels--bugs,
Place of refuge, home of love.
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Bird
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Bird up in the air
Dropped a pupu in my hair,
So I looked up in the sky
And was pupuded in the eye.
Then so mad I turned all red,
Shook my fist, and yelled "YOU'RE DEAD",
And plop the next one struck my head.
So now whenever I walk by
I wear my hat, and you know why.
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S o u p
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Alphabet, alphabet, alphabet soup.
Down flew a bird, some letters to scoop.
An A, B, and C he dropped with no words:
Then fell his P as he spun in a loop,
And I was so glad it wasn't a poop.
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Spice
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Your love is cream
In my coffee
The fizz in my coke
Birds in the springtime
Songs in my heart
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Egg [Haiku]
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Sloped from any point
Elliptically correct
My meal thanks the bird
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Monsters
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A slice of DNA lay in the dish
Facing ‘Father instrument’ and ‘Mother splice’
Tempting hungry chromosomes, looking for a life
Just pray the neighbor’s Cat
Won’t find this lab tonight
And lick it’s fur
For then the world will be
Rid of Dogs and Birds
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Into the Sun
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Spreading wings, soaring into the sky
Warming light lifting higher and higher
Sounds becoming infinitely softer in flight
Never fearing melting pinions of joyous desire
Come with me next time
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