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    Per Diem Archive: H. G. Murtha May 2013, Birds

    Look To The Sky 

    May, is one of our better months to look to the sky, and you will be surprised at what you may see, besides possibly Superman or an airplane; "it's a bird." The avian. In these selections, I want to share with you, the audience, my love and my passion for nature through poems which are among the best bird haiku ever written. These haiku bring out the obvious, and not so obvious; even a poem that does not include the name of a bird. So open up your field guides and enjoy the ride.

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    Author: Penny Harter
    mallards leaving in the water rippled sky
    Author: an'ya
    after its first flight
    the young gerfalcon\'s talons
    tighter on my glove
    Author: Billie Wilson
    the first flakes of snow
    drifting down on the wetlands
    Canada geese
    
    Author: John Wills
    dusk from rock to rock a waterthrush
    
    Author: Tom Painting
    false dawn
    a ruffed grouse drums
    the woods awake
    
    Author: Carolyn Hall
    a wild turkey
    fans its tail
    summer\'s end
    Author: paul m. (Paul Miller)
    spring rain
    the measured step
    of a sandhill crane
    
    Author: J. Zimmerman
    Tan-oak forest
    a winter wren\'s warning call
    near the broken sign
    
    Author: William J. Higginson
    song sparrow
    didn\'t know I\'d missed you
    all these years
    
    Author: Garry Gay
    Red-winged blackbird
    defending his territory
    with a song
    Author: Michael Dylan Welch
    under the eaves
    a barn owl's shadow
    another
    
    Author: Peggy Willis Lyles
    before we knew its name the indigo bunting
    Author: Ferris Gilli
    power outage--
    a whippoorwill calls
    from the tree shadows
    
    Author: Susan Constable
    winter chill
    a sharp-shinned hawk
    silences the dawn
    
    Author: Alan Summers
    a hooded crow
    pecks just outside
    the penalty area
    
    Author: Carol Purington
    Colder...
    Purple finches flit tree to tree
    not dropping a note
    
    Author: Robert Major
    Above the shopfront
    centered amidst the turmoil--
    nesting barn swallow
    Author: Raffael de Gruttola
    in slow motion...
    the great blue heron
    stalks a frog
    Author: Marian Olson
    one
    of
    the
    reeds
    in
    the
    marsh
    green-
    backed
    heron
    
    Author: Marlene Mountain
    a 3rd blanket unpacked and spread out a carolina wren\'s quick note
    Author: Pamela A. Babusci
    winter loneliness...
    not even snow bunting tracks
    in my garden
    
    Author: Roberta Beary
    on the church steps
    a mourning dove
    with mother\'s eyes
    
    Author: Maya Lyubenova
    barking
    at the fisherman\'s dog
    ... a herring gull
    
    Author: Paul W. MacNeil
    paddle at rest
    beads of water slide
    from the loon's bill
    
    Author: Ruth M. Yarrow
    snowwhite valley
    curving dark with the creek
    water ouzel
    
    Author: John Barlow
    riffles . . .
    a belted kingfisher
    splinters the light
    
    Author: Scott Mason
    the passenger pigeon returns
    on a cancelled stamp
    
    Author: Linda Jeannette Ward
    golden swamp warbler
    downy willow seeds flurry
    around his flight
    
    Author: George Swede
    graveyarduskilldeer
    Author: Jane Reichhold
    rivers to the sea
    bending with the songs
    of meadow larks
    
    Author: Deborah P Kolodji
    salt breeze
    over the pickleweed
    marbled godwits
    
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