John Malone invited other people on facebook to contribute haiku or haiku-like links to a poem along the lines of 13 Ways to view a Blackbird, by Wallace Stevens. Here's the result:
The Mag-Pie Poetry Project: a collaborative celebration of all things 'magpie' by fellow facebookers in haiku or haiku-like verse. These poems were collected over a period of only two days and appear in roughly the order in which they were received (JM):
11 Ways of Looking at a Magpie
low-flying magpie
dips wings, changes direction;
watching child applauds.
deborah green
punch-drunk magpie: pounding his reflection
john malone
black and white;
surely brown and grey?
half there in yellow grass
abigail dunleavy
heat wave ---
a magpie looks up
at the closed tap
myron lysenko
sticky-beak --
a magpie flies away
with the cat's lunch
maya lyubenova
persistent begging
of baby magpie. Gaping
mouth worm-filled. Silence
trevor hampel
cracking dawn
black white flash of
magpie beak
susan hawthorne
evening worship
in the silence between chants
magpie carolling
lyn reeves
after the shouting
two magpies in the garden
keeping their distance
rob scott
The 'Pies are out of the finals.
He sits and scratches at
the Magpie on his chest
but it won't fly off.
andrew burke
spring morn; cycling
through smoggy traffic, skirting parks
with trees --- and magpies
amelia walker
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