The Bird King (Great Philippine Eagle)

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    The Bird King (Great Philippine Eagle)

    Under altostratus clouds
    faded blue sky,
    a predator swirls, drifts about,
    blue gray eye searches for prey,
    noises loud, high pitched call, warns
    monkeys down below, exudes fear,
    screams, swings from tree to tree
    away from marauding stare,
    so swift, lightning speed, swoops,
    in minute hard earned prize

    Colugo, civets, snakes, lizards
    are its other favorites gourmet
    shaggy crest on crown, haughty,
    adorned with long brown feathers,
    resembles mythical gryphon,
    dark face, creamy brown nape,
    posterior dark brown, underside,
    underwings, white, legs heavy,
    yellow, powerful large dark claws,
    huge deep bill, high arched bluish gray

    Wingspan a couple meters, world’s largest
    that ever live on earth today,
    a dominant hunter in virgin forest,
    specie’s flight fast and agile
    echos smaller birds of chase,
    a national emblem, national pride
    Pearl of the Orient yet
    vanishing Haribon refuses to die,
    choosing endless escape
    down Pacific blue horizon

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    GentleT commented on The Bird King (Great Philippine Eagle)

    06-02-2009

    The beauty and yet the danger in nature. You have accomplished both here. Also the struggle for survival. Nice work.

    nhorlandi

    06/04/2009

    thanks, appreciate it. nhorlandi

    Angelgirl007 commented on The Bird King (Great Philippine Eagle)

    05-23-2009

    That is awesome! I felt like I was the eagle when reading this poem. It really made me feel like I was seeing the world from a bird's eye view.

    nhorlandi

    06/04/2009

    Gee thanks, truely a great bird we call it here "haring ibon" or haribon for short. nhorlandi

    thoth commented on The Bird King (Great Philippine Eagle)

    04-05-2009

    impressive imagery. pulls you in through the eyes of the hunter

    Necy commented on The Bird King (Great Philippine Eagle)

    04-04-2009

    Yes I agree. Truly a pride of our beautiful Islands. Nicely presented. Kudos to the writer.

    Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

    Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) Greek philosopher.

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