37Passer Domesticus

Songbirds drag their troubles into the sky,
old grudges sparking new passions,
modesty abandoned to the wind.

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Searching for breaks in a winter land of mist and snow,
songbirds feel the lure of faraway springs.

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Songbirds jostle for position
with no time to waste, waking sleepy clouds
from their spring sleep.

This house sparrow allowed me to approach hem very close. I guess he knew which kind of bush he was sitting in.

Discards from the Hollywood dream factory,
songbirds on the lam,
defiant vaudevillians caught in the act,
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Settling in the pauses between seasons,
obscure coordinates frame a songbird's journey
past a dying, dazzling sun.

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Closeup shot of a sparrow in a garden.

Two rebellious songbirds full of nervous energy,
unlikely hybrids of wind and delirium,
avian punks go for broke without brakes,
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Katharine Hepburn said, “He gives her class and she gives him sex.”

Shedding all inhibitions,
avian dancers defy gravity.More

Each day about a dozen or more of these sparrows are sitting in a forsythia bush right across my garden fence - but as soon as I'm close enough to...More

This sparrow is busy collecting nest building material-

Equal parts form and function,
she surveys the remains of a weathered yard,
one last stop on a low-altitude flyby.

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Songbirds battle over bad manners
in the country of clouds,
a momentary dispute passes
like a mocking wind.

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Catching a renegade by surprise before she reaches the boiling point, her wings steal the show.

Sparrow | Passer domesticus

As randy as a pair of spring songbirds,
stealing a glimpse past a glowing wing,
eavesdropping on a tangle of feathers in flight.
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This female house sparrow is eating a nut. Picture taken in Turkey near the city of Bodrum.

A commotion in the sky,
tripping heedlessly through breezes,
bearing messages to the poles.

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Songbird Theater:
No longer waiting for him in some elusive past,
she cuts him loose from her dreams.

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A songbird escapes the day's last sunlight,
darting between snowflakes against the outlines
of darkening trees,
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Lost in a bubble of passion,
oblivious to a winged voyeur,
the sky burns with their blazing melodrama.

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Angry Songbird Theater

"You’re cold as ice.
Nothing but ice wrapped in feathers."

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Old-school toughs reach the point of no return
after running out of things to say,
muffled cries fading away.

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An unexpected encounter with the surveyor,
her unflinching eye transcribing ripples
in the wind into maps of forgotten skies.

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