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Cassowary
CassowaryPhoto from wildwings.com.au whom did you insult that they’d confiscate the better parts of your wings leaving you grounded on ponderous feet abandoned forever confined to your islands of...
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Sinner’s Song
Photo from sodahead.com mellifluous matins of birdsong drift under the eaves repainted with sunrise covering stains left where sin slipped the house into punishing night where it ever remains...
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Downsizing
ArchaeopteryxPhoto from oucom.ohiou.edu birds trembled the earth with feet of their fathers grew leathery wings from featherless fingers singing in roars that fell dead upon lavaflows back when one...
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Birdhousing
“Starlings Need Not Apply”Painting by Amber Jordan-BaloyAt amberjordanbaloy.blogspot.com simple pine planks sawn and fitted with amateur joinery finished in primary colors slapdash garage homemade...
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Poignant Native American Quote
This is the first time I am posting something I didn’t write myself, or as a reblog of another wordpress author. It just turned up on my facebook page and bears such remarkable coincidence with my...
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Picnic
Purple Finch – New Hampshire State BirdPhoto from a-home-for-wild-birds.comsun now cured of its bashfulness birds are in frenzy as days of hard rain surfaced myriad treats creepers crawlers and...
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Nocturnal Chicane
Nyx, Goddess of NightIllustration from magicspoiler.com the hour of the owl safe darkness a fallacy murder in the woodsFiled under: Haiku, POETRY
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Change is in the Air
“Hot Pumpkins, Two Crows and Black Sun”Painting by Colan CampbellFrom artscoritani.com cool breezy sunshine pumpkins plumping on the vine a murder of crowsFiled under: Haiku, POETRY
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It’s Not Their Wings
European Eagle OwlPhoto by Martin EagerFrom runic.com why do birds have eyes for creatures no others can see what have they done to earn private feast biologically blessed exalted by mute evolution...
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Songbirds
“Songbirds”Painting by Susan BourdetFrom wallcoo.com singing their verses perched upon figures of speech passerine poetsFiled under: Haiku, POETRY
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Migration
“Canadian Geese Migrating”Painting by Arnold IsbisterFrom static2.artsetter.com will I still be here when the geese return north cold a mere memoryFiled under: Haiku, POETRY
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Raven
“Crow’s Eye 1″Sketch by Margaret UrbanFrom watchingdogsdream.com the crow’s eye can see me in fact it sees through me to voices once heard in a hurricane grim revelations dark animate prophecies echoes...
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Capistrano
“Mission San Juan de Capistrano”Painting by Henry Chapman FordFrom Wikipedia.com walls mortared with prayers swallow tails scissor the air where Zorro was born peasants empowered by choice between...
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Abyss
Double Crested CormorantPhoto by susanksFrom ibc.lynxeds.com a cormorant settles the swell of my chest lunar tides ebb and flow beneath rice paper skin its blue disc of an eye tracks anonymous prey...
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Evensong
“Evensong”Linoleum Block Print by William HaysFrom theartistsloft.com dovecotes emit oblique octaves as corn-yellow sun settles down among lavender raiment of sky plaintive lyrics of homing at close of...
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Archaeopteryx
Archaeopteryx – The Berlin Specimen Image from Wikipedia.org feather-winged dinosaur or sharp-toothed bird perhaps something between neither one nor the other hard-hearted conservative or soft-headed...
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Blue Jay
“Blue Jay in Flight” Photo from flickr.com royal raiment so impressive to the eye so nasty at heart like his counterpart humans steals thrones without compunctionFiled under: POETRY, Tanka
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Carrion
“Turkey Vultures” Painting by jonshaw From imgur.com what treasons of the heart turn great nations to ruin they are always the lies from the handsomest mouths made to taste like the truth whose proof...
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Tanager
“Scarlet Tanager” Painting by Norma Wilson From normasdailypaintings.blogspot.com we look at the world but see very little too much of existence to hold in the eye too crowded with details to hold in...
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Tiny Swordsmen
“Ruby Throated Hummingbird” Painting by Nancy Terrill From nancyterrill.com hummingbirds hover sip at colorful nectars co-evolved gardens slip into summertime wane signaling time for torporFiled under:...
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