Mating Season Poem by Barry Middleton

Mating Season

Rating: 5.0


it's spring and every male
is chasing a female

a blackbird break-dances
for his tawny girlfriend

green parakeets in pairs
race toward paradise

a mourning dove coos love
secluded in the palms

the osprey builds its nest
displaying primeval flair

the archaic saurian brain
ignites innate desire

Mating Season
Sunday, June 26, 2016
Topic(s) of this poem: birds,nature,spring
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Dimitrios Galanis 01 July 2016

Nice moments poetical coloured.I did not know what parakeets and ospreys were.

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Barry Middleton 01 July 2016

Florida has so many beautiful birds. One of the many reasons I live here. Thanks for the comment.

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Nosheen Irfan 27 June 2016

What wonderful observation you have! You have beautifully captured the Nature's essence. Spring brings pleasure to every living soul. It's when the nature comes alive and the birds and animals rejoice too by romancing n mating. Beautiful poem.10

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Barry Middleton 27 June 2016

Thanks. I get a lot of ideas by watching nature. Glad you like it.

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Marianne Reninger 26 June 2016

barry, nice primeval thoughts voiced beautifully. Like your onomatopoeia, repetitive consonants, and descriptive phrases. Felt like I was in my daughter's back yard in Sarasota. Marianne

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Barry Middleton 26 June 2016

Thanks. All of this was observed at the pool one fine morning including the saurian brain of the humans being ignited. LOL

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