#poems about birds

[godzilla-reads]

“Birds enter into nature like stars into the sky, quickening her pulse and revealing the graces of her spirit.”

—H.J. Massingham’s Introduction to Poems About Birds

#godzilla reads #poems about birds #hj Massingham #book quotes #bird books #bookish #book blog #reading #poetry books

[siliconpoems]

My new poetry pamphlet, 'Corvidae: A Little Book Of Bold Birds' will be released on Friday, 4th of November 2022 at 6.00pm GMT in my Etsy Store

#poetry #poet #poems #poets of tumblr #original haiku #haiku #birds #crows #ravens #rooks #jackdaw #corvid #nature #poems about birds #winter #poems of seasons #original art

[loboto-mae]

a flurry of wings

bodies arched towards the ground:

birds are feeding

#poetry #haiku #haiku poetry #original poem #original haiku #nature #birds #poems about birds #birdwatching

[piizunn]

hand quilting a red breasted merganser for a show in a local public park with my FNMI art collective and a local organization dedicated to reconciliation, the show is called ᐱᔦᓰᐢᑳᐤ piyêsîskâw, there is an abundance of birds. the piece is still in progress, i haven’t covered up the blood and grape jelly stains.

i’ve doing a lot of bird watching in the past few years, my city has some of the best bird watching in the world, apparently people come from all over the world to spot species that can only be found in this specific area.

i have also been thinking a lot about the words of palestinian poet marwan mahkoul

“in order for me to write poetry that isn’t political,

i must listen to the birds

and in order to listen to the birds

the warplanes must be silent”

i’m extremely grateful to live where i do, where there are no warplanes overheard and that birds live in sanctuaries, and it makes me sick to know that the government that systemically removed my people from our homelands and now forces many of us to live in the streets, are one of the many governments aiding in the systemic removal and genocide of palestinians.

as i have been quilting this i have been talking with members of my collective about how the struggles of FNMI and palestinians are linked both in our histories of genocide and in how the settler-colonial state that benefits from the removal of Indigenous land rights, the deaths of our people, and extraction of our resource is the same one aiding the settler-colonial state of israel in their efforts to do the very same thing to palestinians.

to marwan makhoul and every other palestinian: i hope that you can return homes and hear your birds again soon.

#that poem has been haunting me this entire process my heart breaks for palestine #i don’t want to make work that will infringe on palestinian voices or use appropriated imagery #there’s something so Indigenous about loving to the birds #riel text #my work #art #Métis art #indigenous art #palestine

[queerstudiesnatural]

the sky was still blue, @queerstudiesnatural // safet zec // morning sun, edward hopper // funeral blues, w. h. auden // free, florence + the machine // what used to be mine, @loserchildhotpants // 3x04 aperitivo, hannibal // du vent dans mes mollets (2012), carine tardieu

#i've been thinking about that one for a while #ever since the line about the sky and the birds in melanie's fic reminded me of du vent dans mes mollets #goddd that movie #and then i watched hannibal and jack said that and i was like well. three's a pattern #and then i wrote my poem #and then i remembered funeral blues which i read back in high school and i turns out i can still recite it off by heart #rain posts #webweave #grief #cw grief #grief art #grief poem #web weaving #web weave #hannibal #jack crawford #bella crawford #du vent dans mes mollets #edward hopper #safet zec #wh auden #w h auden #florence + the machine #grief webweave

[dacchamp]

#i want to frame this #and write poems about it #sam bird #mitch evans #fe #formula e #berlin eprix 2023

[navysealt4t]

first official day of napowrimo!!! april 1st prompt is: poem that recounts the plot of a novel you haven't read in a while. (warning for themes of war, bombing, & past abuse)

overnight in a bomb shelter

if the world ends this week  please brush my hair  i won’t ask you to be gentle  let me walk barefoot  farther away than the eye can see  in weather cold or warm  i may bite you  sting and curse you  don’t come too close  feed me and bathe me  that’s all i ask   but bombs scream overhead  planes shriek with their engines  sirens blare from the streets  in a murky shelter  buried beneath the mud  of your childhood home  your calloused hands are soft  dropping a blanket ‘round my shoulders  reading a book in the dark  my ears ring and my hands shake  you shield me with your palms  you promise to teach me to sew  to read and write  to run and climb  in moments in the dark  where the world might end  where all i smell is mold  you treat me like a child  who has never known love  i treat you like a woman  who has never known love  and for a moment  the world feels right  as the bombs scream overhead  ‘cause the world might end tonight

#napowrimo #napowrimo 2024 #blue’s writing #poetry #poem #tw war mention #tw bomb mention #tw past abuse #just for tw warnings <3 #the book this is based off is 'the war that saved my life' by kimberly bradley :] #first introduction to found family trope that i like. actually processed was found family #hence the 'child woman' not 'daughter mother' #<333 oh man ada and susan <3 #i love this book sm i needed to write about it #highly rec u read it. rlly good and complex #also ada is disabled and still living her life fuck yeah. god i love ada sm. just like me fr #also yes im posting this 3 am on april 1st. early bird gets the worm or whatever

[akindplace]

But we all know, don't we how sometimes things have to feel anger, so as not to be defeated?

I love this world, even in its hard places.

A bird too must love this world, even in its hard places

So, even if the effort may come to nothing, you have to do something.

It was generally speaking, a perfectly beautiful summer morning.

The gull beat the air with its good wing.

I kept my eyes on the road.

Mary Oliver

#mary oliver #if there is one thing you need to know about me is that Mary Oliver's poems give me the will to live #poetry #anyway I also took this pic when I was reading #about me #on hope #on love #on birds

[deadpanwalking]

A Cooking Egg by T.S. Eliot

En l'an trentiesme de mon aage Que toutes mes hontes j'ay beues …

Pipit sate upright in her chair Some distance from where I was sitting; Views of the Oxford Colleges Lay on the table, with the knitting.

Daguerreotypes and silhouettes, Her grandfather and great great aunts, Supported on the mantelpiece An Invitation to the Dance. . . . . . I shall not want Honour in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.

I shall not want Capital in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Alfred Mond: We two shall lie together, lapt In a five per cent Exchequer Bond.

I shall not want Society in Heaven, Lucretia Borgia shall be my Bride; Her anecdotes will be more amusing Than Pipit's experience could provide.

I shall not want Pipit in Heaven: Madame Blavatsky will instruct me In the Seven Sacred Trances; Piccarda de Donati will conduct me …

But where is the penny world I bought To eat with Pipit behind the screen? The red-eyed scavengers are creeping From Kentish Town and Golder's Green;

Where are the eagles and the trumpets?

Buried beneath some snow-deep Alps. Over buttered scones and crumpets Weeping, weeping multitudes Droop in a hundred A.B.C.'s

#i linked to the annotations in the title #this poem is in the same collection as prufrock but isn’t as well known #it's a shame because i could talk about it for hours #once you've read and explicated it within a framework of literary & historical & biographical context you can have fun interpreting it #sometimes i'll read it with trans goggles on #works like syncing dark side of the moon to the wizard of oz #it's not just about the title--the narrator is somebody who is indefinitely postponing transition. the inanity of hatching into a dull bird #he is assuring himself that when he dies none of it will matter. he won't feel ugly or lonely or bored or stupid #but the dismissal of pipit and her simplicity pivots into the bittersweet realization that he's given her up for nothing. #that he was happiest before he came to think of her as vulgar & resented himself for wanting her #the world will end all the same and all he'll ever have is joylessness and the absence of pipit #t.s. eliot #poetry #i read much of the night and go south in the winter

[amalgamationink]

NAPOWRIMO24 #15: Occultation

#prompt: become inspired by the stamps collected on the stampbot twitter. #so i also needed to write a poem for class that was technically overdue (i have been neglecting my academic prompts for napowrimo ones) #and this week we were assigned to write NATURE POEMS. which i was not a fan of as i am an indoors person lmao #anyway i wanted to write about the eclipse and so i scoured the stampsbot twitter til i found an eclipse stamp. #obeying the letter of the law if not the spirit... but hey killing two birds with one stone! #anyway fuck yeah everyone else wrote about the eclipse a week ago when it happened but here i am a week late w/ dunkin' :) #i don't even really like this piece but gahhh i am really not a nature poetry guy okay. and there were limits with the class prompt- #that i didn't even TELL y'all about. i was supposed to LIMIT METAPHORS. DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT DID TO ME #anyway whatever it's a poem i wrote it today it counts #napowrimo 2024 #napowrimo #spilled ink #poetry on tumblr #poets on tumblr #poems on tumblr #great north american eclipse #solar eclipse 2024 #solar eclipse #poetry #poem #writeblr #damien.txt #img desc in alt text

[crimeboys]

s2 of hannibal will make it your mission in life to kill every authority figure abusing their position of power. with your bare hands.

#text post #mine #got to the peter episode again and it fucking destroyed me this time #i should find that poem i wrote like. years ago about the bird.

[godzilla-reads]

🦃 Poems About Birds edited by H.J. Massingham

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

This anthology of poems captures the vibrant lives of birds through the eyes of poets from the Middle Ages to the 20th-Century.

The editor writes in the introduction that the criticism of anthologies not being big enough or not including enough often comes down to the fact that anthologies are meant to give you a taste of a common theme so you might look for more. This holds especially true for this volume as I feel like it focuses heavily on a few poets and doesn’t have a lot of diversity in the authorship.

I enjoyed each poem and had fun picking favorites from each era of writing. From the Middle Ages to the Restoration my favorite was “Philip my Sparrow” by Anon. From the Restoration to the Nineteenth Century my favorite was “The Robin in Winter” by William Cowper. From the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century my favorite was obviously “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe. And my Twentieth Century Favorite was “The Return of the Goldfinches” by Sylvia Lynd.

Now don’t get me wrong, this is a great introduction to bird poems but if you’re looking for a more in depth collection, I’d recommend the Everyman’s Library “On Wings of Song”.

#godzilla reads #poems about birds #hj Massingham #book review #book blog #poetry books #poetry anthology #booklr #bookworm #reading #bookish

[piplupod]

my brain is so nonsensical, i will see omens in the most mundane shit but then when a dead blackbird appears a little ways away from outside the house i don't even blink

#I feel like theres poems and stuff abt dead blackbirds being omens BDJFDLL #i think maybe it doesnt click as an omen bc i am so wired now to just immediately think about helping put the critter to proper rest #(and then perhaps collect the bones after it decomposes fjfkdl) #i think his skull (he was a breeding male im pretty sure but I'll have to double check the photos i took) is too broken to rly collect #but i did wrap him up in cheesecloth and bury him (the crows did not want him) to check on in a few months #hopefully i can finish cleaning the crow and pigeon and mouse I've got that just need disinfecting #(crows are legal to have remains of here btw i know in some places the MBA doesnt allow it but here it IS legal lol) #i will have to check abt the blackbird probably but just burying him is fine even if he's protected under the MBA i think #better than leaving him out on the road i think !!! #also dw abt th3 bird virus that was going around - i always glove up with good quality disposable gloves and wash my hands + forearms after #I do not play around w dead things fjfkfl i dont want to get sick from handling them #i am very careful abt it fjdkdl and make sure to keep the amount i have to handle them (while gloved) to a minimum #dead animal tw #unsanitary tw #maybe ??? its all sanitary the way i do it but maybe it would make ppl feel queasy or triggered hearing abt it #ask to tag #pippen needs 2nd breakfast

[almonddirge]

I know “if I can stop one heart from breaking” is basically Firefly’s song but I somehow got to wondering if Robin wrote it from experience

#I know basically nothing about her lore #almond rambles #honkai star rail #hsr robin #also I remember that she possibly got her name from the poem the song got its title from #plus the bird imagery makes me think yeah she felt that #and major penacony spoilers ahead but #that also makes me think both women associated with that song died in the dream about the same time #I specify in the dream because I think they aren’t gone forever bc it would be a weird choice to kill them permanently #and we have no reason to care bc we Don’t Fucking Know Them

[harvsbian]

and why does the universe touch your skin, and throw light on you?

parrot from @mumboyumbo's royal au woahhh no way

#parrotx2 #lifesteal smp #harv.png #read about how bird flight works for this and Still went with the basic boring answer #anyways yeah his wings r clipped #ok to be fair i was a Little creative. he also cant molt :) so his feathers get fucked up. sad! #caption from the end poem it doesnt reaaaaally mean anything for the drawing. but it sounds nice

[hermitcrossovers]

(HTTYD x MCYT crossover. No knowledge of the series is needed I just like the dragons :D )

There have always been hybrids as long as players have existed. Nobody truly knows where they first came from, but the common theory is that mob code and player code got mixed up, and the gods decided to keep hybrids alive. People seemed to like them after all.

But there is one species of hybrids that nobody knows the origin of. They appear to be dragons (and that is certainly what they call themselves), but there are no mobs that match with them.

And as with any rare species, there are safe places, and places that will enslave them. Hermitcraft is once such server made to keep these hybrids safe.

---A brief (and not complete) list of dragon hybrids on hermitcraft:

Whispering Death!Etho

Sentinel!Grian

Boneknapper!Cleo

Scuttleclaw!Ren

Monstrous Nightmare!Tango

Flightmare!Scar

Hermitcraft is built like it is for a reason, the fabric of the server woven into a safe haven by those who are othered, the structures and people, adaptable and kind, even in it's most dangerous times, they're there to create. The dragons are no different from the rest, and the universe has given them a soft place to land.

-.-.-.-.-

The gods were young once, too weak to care for the universe they were born to protect. Thus, the dragons came to be, made of nothing but milk and love like the players after them.

Their sole purpose was to raise the gods, and once they were grown, and they no longer had a purpose, they went into hiding, until the world needed them again.

There were dragons when the gods were young, and now that they're back, different, yet the same, it's the gods turn to protect them.

-Mod Jer

#hermitcraft #httyd #etho #grian #cleo #ren #tangotek #goodtimeswithscar #magic bird anon #i didnt comment on this in the main post because i got lorey but ahhahdbndaha #the species fit so well fot each hermit #obssesed with boneknapper cleo especially #i was going for something more light hearted but then i got excited thinking about how the end poem and the httyd 3 speech would fit in one