The Flight Of Birds Comments
See the buzzard soar, the swallow skim a lake, the kestrel hover;
observe the skylark pouring his little heart out in the sky;
admire the flapwing, lapwing flight of a flock of plover;
what birds do is fly.
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man can only envy the bird...and they all fly.. all of them...including the penguin! what a wonderful trip, thanks for the ride...!
The soaring and whooping of a fabulous flock of words. Some wonderful images – the pelican; ‘a living javelin’ and the penguin’s ‘bluegreen underwater sky’, to name but two. The end rhymes nestle inseparably; ‘comical/epitomical’ ;) and chirrup mellifluously; ‘silly/neck-and-bill-y’. Fine feathers make fine words, as this ornithological opus serves to prove. S :)
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7/19/2025 3:23:11 PM # 1.0.0
Really great! You may have out-Nashed Ogden. Or at least created something he would have delighted in..., It's just right, Mike