Bri Edwards Nature Poems

I saw a lonely cloud one day.
It looked small beyond the Bay.
I tried to find a second and failed,
even though I looked each way.
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Two days ago out our window in the morning
a unique event appeared to me without warning.
Among the trees, of our neighbor's southern slope,
I spied a large deer which I felt had little hope
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The storm clouds covered the sun,
bringing to an end the day-of-fun.
I knew my owner was not too bright;
I resisted his casting off with all my might.
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Scarlet Tanager (Male) [ In County Park In New York State,1980s ]
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Mary was a little weird, a fact with which you'll soon agree.
And if this story sounds familiar, I hope you'll forgive...ME.
She attended Beavis Elementary, just around the block.
She left for school each school day, by eight a.m. by the clock.
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For ten thousand years, on a lofty mountain ledge, the shiny pebble sat,
until this afternoon when a brazen raven.....dropped it squarely on my hat.
I guess I had it coming, as I planned to steal chicks from her nest.
Soooo...I decided I'd give up for now, ... and hike back home to rest.
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Each of three days I've spied a spider ‘idly sitting'…..
…in a web strung between branches.Was it knitting?
[ I don't think it was. ]Was it looking back at me ….
…through the window where I was gazing at its tree?
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The sun has finally settled behind the nearby Belmont hills,
but its lingering light, the evening sky, with blue pastel fills.
Our star has warmed another San Carlos April day,
and now westward it recedes, as outside calls a jay.
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I just grabbed a long-handled spoon.....
to scoop little pickles from a jar.
While looking at them swimming in jar's brine,
I had a thought I thought was bizarre.
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2009 Version:

Who Asked The Zebra 'Plaid or Stripe? '
Though 'Big Game' fashion critic does snipe,
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I woke up, on my back, staring at the sky,
to find a vulture staring back. I knew not why.
Of a sudden, it hissed, flapped its wings, did NOT fly.
I said 'Shit! You're a vulture', and it plucked out one eye.
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Zebra Mussel Invades

The zebra mussel has, on its shell, stripes.
It fouls, sometimes, boat intake pipes.
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Among damp leaves, in our front yard,
a spotted salamander lies.
A nest of eggs it does guard....
from bugs and other eyes.
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I woke up, on my back, staring at the sky,
to find a vulture staring back. I knew not why.
Of a sudden, it hissed, flapped its wings, did NOT fly.
I said 'Shit! You're a vulture', and it plucked out one eye.
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I'm a white guy, aged 64, raised in a small town way up north.
Do some thoughts I have about blacks signal prejudice coming forth?
First I'd say NO, but then again I'd say YES.
But such thoughts, by both whites and blacks, are normal I would guess.
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As I read an article about how we humans age,
I suddenly spied a comma crawling slowly ‘cross the page.
I knew it couldn't be a comma, but it WAS so small
that if it were much smaller, I'd NOT see it at all.
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Our recent driving trip through western states has ended.
In Yellowstone I said something to my wife which offended
her because it seemed to show lack of interest in what we did.
I referred to the thermal features as 'crap'. So? I'm just a kid.
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Rock Dove

Some call it pigeon, some say rock dove.
Some, for it, feel hate; some more like love.
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I enjoy seeing birds at our backyard feeder,
And, from bushes and trees, hearing some birds that 'tweeeeeter'.

Tiny black seeds attract finches, which have the name ‘gold'....
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We're soon flying into tomorrow
and leaving yesterday behind.
In this way we'll more daylight borrow,
but losing sleep's what we may find.
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If Mother Nature must be dressed at all,
i hope, when i look her way, her dress will fall.
But just 'oh so slightly' when i, first, take a look,
just like turning a few pages of a joyous book.
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I am an avid birdwatcher, or was, I will say, …..
& I dislike no bird, be they at work or at play.
Even if they poop on my head (one better not!) ,
I ‘love' all birds, aka I like them a very, very lot.
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As I came out from behind a backyard bush,
where I'd gone to secretly pee,
I paused to admire its clumps of purple blossoms,
and there I spied a silent …..bumblebee.
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Nature has a lot of power, so i asked....
for a woman (knock on wood) .
I think Nature answered my call...
just as fast as She could.
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Now oysters are often grown in shallow water in a 'bed',
then harvested and sold to restaurants where oyster-lovers are fed.

At one oyster farm a single oyster got left behind by mistake.
The oyster was saved from being eaten, and at first thought he'd gotten a break.
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A stately hemlock.... my western window does guard.
Its afternoon shadow marks the edge of the yard.
Its flat needles are green.
Its cones have a brown sheen.
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Our lives are not our own so much like two hundred years ago.
Instead we're watched and photographed as we travel to and fro.
Sometimes we're captured, tagged, and measured…..but luckily released.
Sometimes we're confined, on display, even at times when we're deceased.
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I pick grapefruits from ground ‘neath Helen's tree.
Through her window she is gazing at me.

I have her permission to gather from the ground,
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Nature may be defined as things-of-Earth (excluding humans and ‘their creations') :
Ants - Zebras, Artichokes - Zinnias, Rocks, Water, etc., ….not poems OR nations.

Funny means different things, but mostly I refer to poems which MAY make you laugh,
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It's nearly Spring and I just saw...
that geese to the South flew;
quite a good number,
not just a few.
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Do you have a sister
Oh My Royal Mister?
If you do I would come to Your Court,
And would, with her, consent to consort.
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