Today's found poem comes from the New York Times article Some Male Birds Fly Under False Colors to Attract Mates, Study Suggests, written by Emily Anthes. Unlike other found poems I have written this month, this one uses words and phrases in an order that is sometimes different from the way they appear in the text.
Meant to be Noticed
elaborate feathers
with optical effects
deep black plumage and
splashes of color
electric yellows
traffic-cone oranges
nearly neon scarlets
a vibrantly colored male
alerts nearby females
he would make
a standout mate
in the game of life
Poem ©Tricia Stohr-Hunt, 2021. All rights reserved.
I hope you'll come back tomorrow and see what new poem I've found. Until then, you may want to read previous poems in this series. I'm also sharing these found poems as images on my Instagram in case you want to see them all in one place.
April 1 - Flotsam
April 2 - A Warm Wind
April 3 - Zentangle Poem
April 4 - Soap Bubbles
April 5 - Following Butterflies
April 6 - Mount St. Helens
April 7 - Beautiful Buildings
April 8 - Muir in California
April 9 - Night on the Reef
April 10 - The Greatest Story Ever Told
April 11 - Archaeologists Look for Clues
April 14 - Walter Rothschild and His Museum
April 15 - Ben Franklin, Inventor
April 16 - One Well
April 17 - Phytoplankton
April 18 - Beneath My Feet
April 19 - Being Caribou
April 20 - Studying Adélie Penguins
April 21 - Fossils
April 22 - On the Brink
April 23 - Surtsey
April 24 - Up From the Dirt
April 25 - Black Holes
THE most scarlet of tanagers. Wow. I remember seeing my first cardinal in VA - it was shockingly red. We just don't have that color out West - a wing or tail spot of red here, a touch on head feathers here and there, but not in that full, screeching bright red nearly whole bird amount. I love it.
ReplyDeleteSo vivid!
ReplyDelete" electric yellows
traffic-cone oranges
nearly neon scarlets"