Diction's Dicty Delights: Poem, "Bird is the Word"

[raze]

For today's contribution to Diction's Dicty Delights, here is a goofy idiom-based romp that is "for the birds" insofar as serious poetry goes. I hope you'll enjoy it anyway :)

Bird is the Word
Bird
So little a word
it seems absurd
that four letters contain
so much inferred.

For example:
From a bird's eye view
its meaning can skew
to a poised middle finger
the perfect "screw you."

She eats like a bird:
The meager appetite
Or a figure slight?
Bird nerds know better
and say, not quite...

Bird-brained wisdom?
If you're not sold
know the wise owl told:
Don't search the bushes
for what you already hold.

Get your ducks in a row,
only count on what you know
not unhatched nest-eggs;
goose-chases reap woe.

And those early to rise
are destined the prize.
If worms aren't your thing?
Head as the crow flies

To my next point:
Birds know how to live
(Dear audience, forgive
my rhyme scheme
gone dead as a dodo:
It's time to wing it!)

With friends:
Seek a common feather
and flock on it together.
Or if you prefer:
Take to each other
like ducks to water.

Lovebirds?
Feel free as a bird to be
proud as a peacock
when you're naked as a jaybird
even if you're no spring chicken.

Leave your albatross
in the sky where it belongs;
strive to be happy as a lark
even when the world
ruffles your feathers,
leaves you crazy as a loon
or mad as a wet hen.

Because, you silly goose
it's one very rare bird
scarcer than hen's teeth, even
who can spread its wings
instead of singing from a cage.

Take to the skies!

Readers:
Optional fun in the comments: What are some of your favorite idioms?

Writers:
Optional fun in the comments: Share a short poem or verse based on your favorite idiom.

Comments

[alee_grrl]

The eats like a bird one made me laugh the hardest. It's been used the uninformed to describe my eating habits. I may pick at my food, but I will never eat as much as most birds do. :)

Favorite idiom(s) poem:

Slow as molasses in January
may as well say I'm frozen stiff
moving slower than a snail's pace
my pace may not be as quick as my wit
but I'll get where I'm going
sooner or later

[raze]

Love it! And I'm glad I'm not the only one who employs slower than molasses in January; I've gotten some weird looks for using it.

[altamira16]

Mad as a hatter is one of my favorites. Hatters used mercury in processing of furs, and they really were mad due to mercury poisoning.

[jjhunter]

Oh wow - that is an amazing historical tidbit; thank you so much for sharing!

[raze]

Good choice and thanks for sharing!