Not the Kind You Flip

Birds, I mean.

Yep. They show up in poems all the time.

Sometimes they are even the sole focus of entire collections and anthologies. This truth makes it challenging to write about birds in a way that feels original and surprising.

Doesn’t mean you can’t do it.

Write a poem that uses birds as its subject or as its image and metaphor. And–you guessed it–make it original and surprising.

This is a great opportunity to play with paradoxes and analogies.

Here are poems from Zingara Poetry Review for inspiration:

“Blackbird” by Yvette R. Murray

“The Lark Ascended” by Wayne Lee

“Seringo” by Charles Weld

“Bird, Tired Bird” by Sue Blaustein