Category Archives: Birds
Portrait of Taylor-2
Taylor was a 21 year old resident of Antelope Valley, California, USA who had three jobs. Firstly, she had her own photography business doing portraits and events.
She also was a pet care associate at the PetSmart in East Palmdale, California, USA.
Finally, she worked with animal actors at Birds & Animals Unlimited in Acton, California, USA. She was a kennel assistant who cleaned up after penguins, kangaroos, wolves, cats, dogs, bunnies, hours, hawks, eagles, peacocks, emos, pigs and goats. These animals acted in movies, TV commercials, news, and various videos. Her favorite animal was one of the wolves, Cruz, who had been in the TV show Zoo.
Image Credits: Bat-Ami Gordin © 2017 all rights reserved. Credit if you use it, please.
alive on subway senryu
alive on subway senryu
space feels close to hell
rumbling underground death-trap
did not plunge today
public platform
exacerbating delays
softening subway
speeding through tunnels
boundary between two spots
modern convenience
people feel alive
navigating city streets
defying traffic
exist on subway
surrounded by city folk
heading to their homes
routine daily nap
wake-up at destination
good use of subway
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Written for:
Poetics: New view for you
Prompt, by @cmschoenfeld, was to “have some fun and write subway poems.”
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Photo Credit: roniweiss – flicker page © All Rights Reserved
to the tens and hundred times
to the tens and hundred times
optical-chemistry
intensified
electro-magnetic conductivity
multiplied
to the tens and hundred times
durably
super-heroically
defied
classical laws
material
conservation
pollutant
invalidation
extraordinary
transformation
several
dimensions deep
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Written for and posted on:
Posted on:
http://dversepoets.com/2012/04/12/tripping-the-cosmos/
Prompt, by @shralec, was engage in poetic conflict with the scientific world-view. I chose the nano-world view. There are mathematical connotations to the title, in that we have prefixes like micro, kilo, nano, milli etc.
Photo credit: Valerie Coskrey’s Classroom Tools and Ideas
Black Tailed Fliers
Black Tailed Fliers
Black tailed fliers semi-hover, thrust, retreat,
and fly backwards. Still facing their foes,
they swiftly assault. They strike and repeat.
Black tailed fliers semi-hover, thrust, retreat,
and flap flight patterns. Each bird knows
how to sustain and support a propelling wingbeat.
Black tailed fliers semi-hover, thrust, retreat,
and fly backwards, still, facing their foes.
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Written for:
Poetics: New view for you
Prompt, by @bmiller007, was to choose a picture from the dverse page and write a poem that reflected the picture. I chose to write one in Triolet form.
Photo credit: Tracey Grumbach
melody becomes a young angel
melody becomes a young angel
melody becomes a young angel
living in a secular world
dirty, opportunistic
soul in constant distress
majestic music, sorrowful
trembling amazingly
resting in the shady peace
of an earthly train yard
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Today’s prompt, was to write a poem inspired by the art of Kenia Cris over at Poesia Torta,
Posted on:
The Sunday Challenge ~ Featuring Kenia Cris
private dreamliner
private dreamliner
retinas scanning
duskish horizon
shoulders stretch
airfoils grow
angles | changes
feathery at armpit
on his back
private dreamliner
conserving momentum
physical phenomena
catapult
to lift
updrafts
to sustain
yet to this fowl
it is but fishy
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Today’s prompt, by Brian Miller was to write a poem inspired by Reena Walkling, from Missing Moments, where she shows off some amazing photographic skills, and even writes poetry.
Posted on:
Poetics – Visual-eyes-ing
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Open Link Monday
Geese At River Tanka
Geese At River Tanka
children plucking grass
gathering flowers for mom
cease at sudden honks
to follow a pair of geese
waddeling riverside
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Posted and written for
One Single Impression Prompt 189: River
Photo Credit: Mine (c) 2010 all rights reserved, credit if you use it, please.
Owl In Flight
Owl In Flight
Cherry orchard sandlots,
rolling terrain of rye.
At the keel,
sternum flutters.
Contoured feathers,
streamlined flight.
Vigilant search for rations.
Scanning from the clouds.
Aerial stillness passing.
Hunger seems to last.
Movement detected.
Gliding high above.
Brief stillness in air.
Ready for the dive.
Falling on approach.
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I am posting this one for the “One Stop Poetry Challenge – the Photography of Fee Easton” .
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Poetry Picnic Week 9 : Longing, Loss, Loosing and Failure