A pair of #tanka from Taiwan #birds #poetry #poems #birdpoems

Something I’ve been walking around with for a while, but got a nudge today

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Alice Oswald, from her book Woods etc.

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taken by surprise
by all the colors
November hasn’t
hopping here along
a gray fence rail

a warbler I don’t
know moving too quick
to see more than that
this little I see
can be just enough

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Late summer in the Rockaways #birds #nature #birdpoems #poetry

After many years I could identify the #bird in my #Haiku #haikuprompt #BlueSkyPoets #birdpoems #poetry thanks to an App for #birdsongs!

Red-eyed Vireo
Twittering away in trees -
At last found the bird

that the birds sing and
I cannot understand is
just fine and even
more knowing everything is
not anything to be desired

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Another little bulbul tanka
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there’s nothing special
I know about a bulbul
they’re everywhere
but what if thinking of them
I think of someone what then

let the bulbuls be
common as they are atop
trees poles wires singing
see them light-vented like love
how they color everything

#birds #naturepoetry #birdpoems #tanka #poetry

Lines while traveling to Yilan

in night mountains
unseen as waves press
into shore this world
alive within us
how many birds fly
unseen in night skies

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A bit of magic, from W.S. Merwin

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I love Sara Michas-Martin's poetry so much. #poem #poetry #saramichasmartin #birds #birdpoems

Remembering a gull, at end of day

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#naturepoetry
#tanka
#birdpoems
#poetry

Owls among the oaks

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#naturepoetry
#poems
#poetry
#birdpoems

I know it’s fall, but here’s something from the spring

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A tanka sequence from my book, “no better place than here”

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A couple more Taiwan quatrains

among shifting leaves
feathered movement forms
gray-cheeked fulvetta
she holds heartbeat still

* * *

mountains come down green
into open ocean
a night heron flies
calm beyond knowing

#poetry #birdpoems #poems #🪶 #taiwan

A couple Taiwan quatrains

Taiwan barbet sings
somewhere near unseen
soft rainfall stillness
whispers green secrets

* * *

over green leafsea
black kite circles slow
wings spreading silence
not even wind moves

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rain thick in the air
and bay stilled by windless clouds
only mergansers
wildheaded and all at home
in this dim morning your smile

#tanka #shortpoems #birdpoems #poetry #poems