Ah Nature, ever the poet’s go-to when blocked. Here are some of my attempts to catelogue each red tooth and fearful symmetry.
Poems about Birds:
Aves Republica
Aves Unblazoned
Barrow Bird
Bill-Knobs & Eyeliner
Bob-Bob-Bobbing
Butcherbirds
Carol of the Robins
Catholic Swans
Corvus niger
Counting Magpies
An Estate of Builder-Birds
Estuary
Fat Pigeons
The First of May
Flying Mice
Fowl
Gallybaggers
A Halcyon Vision
Headbanger
Hoops & Smits
How the Curlew got its Curl
Look to your Lesser Linen
Love Birds
A Malady of Arms
Mockingbirds
My Toe Bleeds, Betty
Nest
Never Three on a Card
Northlingars
Peggy Picas
Pigeon Season
Plenty to Crow About
Ravencross
Red in Breast & Claw
Red-Herring Gulls
Roofkeepers
Sing a Song of Sixty
Stirred-Up Eagles
Summer Begins at Midsummer
Swan Song
Sweep
Talking Turkey
There Shall the Falcons also be Gathered, Each One with her Mate
These are the Beasts upon the Earth
Thunder Thrush
Tyto & Stryx
Untouchables
Urban Selection
Poems about Cats:
Attacat
The Barons of the Jungle
A Cat in Hell’s Chance
Catalyst
Cats in Progress
Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office
Damnatio ad Bestias
Felis schroedingi
Katya
Kismet Cat
Longhold Tenancy
The Magnolia Jungle
The Mousecatchers’ Ball
The Prayer in the Purr
Scaredy-Cats
Urban Pilgrims
White Whiskers
Poems about the Countryside:
Acorn Margins
Bob-Bob-Bobbing
Brownfield
Dig
Dune
Endless Rolling Fields
Estuary
Everything from Shells
The Fork in the Road
Foxing Day
From Mighty Acorns
Fruits of the Verge
Gallybaggers
A Glut of Collectives Nouns
Groves & Thickets
Harvest Song
Harvest Traffic
Hedge-Lights
Hoops & Smits
Horn of Plenty
The Horticultrix
Jethro’s Toll
Musings on the Nature of Hadrian’s Wall
Orogeny
Pastoral Symphony
Stonesand
Swamm-Lore
The Tillers of the Ground
Via Metallum
Vine-Clad
Wet Rain & Dry Rain
Poems about Dinosaurs & Reptiles (& Fossils):
Adders & Ladders
Ammonites & Moabites
Anti-Venom
Book-Nosed Lukas
Counting Forwards
Dino-Golf
Dürer’s-Rhino Syndrome
Ediacaran
Everything from Shells
Exit the Dragon
Jurassic Lark
London Pebble
Naming the Serpents
Paleo-Arctic
The Pillars of the Earth
Saurosaurus
Sleeping with the Armoured Fishes
Stonewyrms
Tellurians
Terror-Soar
Thumbs Are Fingers Too
Poems about Evolution:
All Life Is Here
And Saw That It Was Good
Armour
Bio-Radio
The Blacktop Jungle
Cats in Progress
The Change
Cold Fish
Counting Forwards
Do Kings Play Chess On Fine Green Silk ?
Evolution Chant
The Green & The Red
Hidden Eyes
Horn of Plenty
Incarcination
Larviform Females
Life in the Colonies
Linnaean quanta
Paley Ontology
Quad-Ops
There is no Plan A
Thumbs Are Fingers Too
Vermification
Why are Trees Trees ?
Poems about Fishes & Other Sealife:
Ammonites & Moabites
Asterickthys
Asterisks
Beside the Seaside
The Benthonaut
The Blobfish
Cold Fish
Cocky & Fishy
Estuary
Fishes & Physics
Fish on Friday
Jellyfishes
Life in the Colonies
Massacre On-Mass
Quad-Ops
R-Type
Rockflower
Salty Moulters
Sonnet of the Portuguese
Swimming Head
Walking Fishes
Poems about Human Biology:
A-wub-duh-dree-furr
Acid Verse
Anatamour
Brackish Streams
Brain of Thought
The Bug
By George !
Carriers
Clumsfulness
Darker Later
Dioxide Diet
Double-Dip Sleep
Elevenses
Every Winner gets a Free Shave
Ginger Snaps
Glabrous Glands
God Bless You !
The Golden Future
Hairshirts
Hold Your Breath & Count To Ten
Human Nature of the Beast
I Leave It Up To You
If you can hear this, you are dying…
In the Arms of Morphea
Inner Beauty
Innerlogues
Insomnia
Intwinned & Intwined
Iris to Iris, Pupil to Pupil
Lockdown Locks
The Long, Long Chord
Microbiota
Mine For Life
A Mug’s Game
My Second-Best Beds
No Laughing Matter
Ode to Laze
Ophelia’s Pharmacy
Pareidolia
Pens Down !
Photocells
Pilar’s Eyes
A Poet to His Surgeon
Psycho-Allergy
Rhino Dancing
The Rhythm of Life
Rockabye Lullabye
Sleep in Solo
Sleep of the Blessèd
Sluggabed
Soul-Lights
Spearleeks
Starve the Addiction
Sweet Placebo
Synapse Error
‘Tache-less
“Tell me more of this Earth thing called kissing”
Thy Name is Edom
Too Many Winks
A Troubled Brow
Twinge Whinge
Twins I Have Known
Undreamt
Unhappy Feet
The Valentine Virus
Virgin Birth
Watching You Idle
We Are Legion
Poems about Insects:
Adderbolts
The Ant-Days of Summer
The Big Butterfly Count
Blighty Bugs
Bumble-Buffet
Butterfly Bushwacked
Butyrumusca Getii
The Change
Dancing Gnats
Exoskeletons
The First of May
Flinders
Flymènco
Frost Flitters
The Hand Not Bitten
Harlequins
Hedge-Lights
An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles
Jumbo Flies
Kosher Insecta
Larviform Females
Limb-Slungs & Beam-Shanks
The Lord God Made Them All
Lousy with Names
Mayfly Days
Monomorphic Adolescence
Munch Munch
Oak Apple Day
One Spot, Two Spot
Parasites
The Pessimist’s Camera
Song of the Straight-Wings
Sting
Summer Guest
T-Moth
Telling the Bees
Unsigned
The Vegetable Plot
Poems about other Invertebrates:
Afterpour
Ammonites & Moabites
Asterisks
The Benthonaut
Cornucopia
Fiddlesnaps
Hundredfoots
Incarcination
Isopod Nod
Jellyfishes
A Landrace of Snails
Life in the Colonies
London Pebble
Lousy with Names
Nothing with a Face
Parasites
The Pillars of the Earth
Pond Life
The Queen of the Cockles
Salty Moulters
Scallies
See, Elegance !
Slow Poke
Sonnet for the Portuguese
Turbo
Upward Spiral
Wiggle Wiggle
Poems about Mammals (except Humans and Cats):
Balaam’s Asses
Batteries
Beaver Geezers
Brass Neck
Canis Lupus Canis
Carapace Steeplechase
Cattle Prattle
The Change
Cornucopia
Deers
Dog Tags
The Elephants of War
Foxing Day
(G)nus
Hippocalypse
Hoops & Smits
Infestations & Negotiations
The Kine
Mongeese
Mus laboritorium
Pastoral Symphony
Rhinos in Name Only
Roadside Rodent
Seven Seven
Sheep Music
Sheep Mayn’t Safely Graze
Urban Pilgrims
Weasel Words
Where the Hounds Lie Low
Poems about Microbes:
The Blacktop Jungle
Everything from Shells
Four Thousand Million Years in the Making
Infestations & Negotiations
Lost Couplets from The Auguries of Innocence
Microbiota
Retro Virus
Soil Savants
The Valentine Virus
Z. apocalypsus
Poems about Plants:
Acorn Margins
Balding Trees
Bashful Bulbs
Blackfingers
Brackicide
Brownfield
Bumble-Buffet
Butterfly Bushwhacked
Cactus Practice
Catkins & Conkers
Cherry-Picking
The Cherry, Then
Cyclamens
The Dandelion International
An English Country Garden
Euphoric Euphorbia
First Fruits
The First of May
Floating Arums
Flore Pleno
Floriography
Garden Overspills
Gordianwort
The Green Tree Anthem
Hairy Limes
Hallmark Horticulture
The Hand Not Bitten
Hemlock
The Horticultrix
Judas Trees
Kalanchoe
Know your Onions
Last in Flower
Lightweight Bulbs
Lilies of the Shallows
The Memory of Woods
Missing Those Kissing Toes
Mistlemass
Moveable Feast
Nicholmas Daisies
A Norse Discourse
Nothofagus antactica
Oak Apple Day
One Plant’s Meat is Another Man’s Garden
Ophelia’s Pharmacy
The Other June
The Parable of the Mustard Seed
Parasites
Pepper-Leper
Pioneer Species
Pollarding
Potato Blossom
The Practical Gardener
Pyrophyles
Rhubarb Mutterings
The Root of All Evil
Schrödinger’s Cactus
Scorpion Grass
The Sisters McBloom
A Small Tragedy
Spring Pruning
Suburban Spruces
Summer Begins at Midsummer
Sun Serfs
Swamm-Lore
The Thick in the Air
The Tolpuddle Tree
Transatlantic Cable 9 – Gutta-Percha
The Travelcard Shuffle
Trees in Threes
The True Cross
Trumpet Solo
Tumbleweed
Unspruced Pine
Vine-Clad
Wearing White for Eastertide
Weedfingers
What are you, then ?
Why are Trees Trees ?
Wild Barley
The Witherness of the Fig-Tree
Poems about Spiders:
Arachnophilia
Arachubiquita
Daddy Longlegs
Epeira
I Spied a Spider
Limb-Slungs & Beam-Shanks
Moult Litter
Poisonhead
Spider Spiters
Spiders, Incidentally
Spiders, Plural
Squatters
Web-Slingers
Poems about the Weather & the Seasons:
Afterpour
The Ant-Days of Summer
April Smarts
Autumn Layers
Charge
Day of the Dead
Daylight Austerity
Downpour
Easter Rising
An Estate of Builder-Birds
Fall Back
The First Bounce of Spring
The First Chill of Autumn
The First Day of Autumn
Forever Autumn
Free Zing
Frost Song
Furtive Fog
Ginger Snaps
Gods’ Breath
Heavy Weather
The Horticultrix
Hot Air & Cold Fronts
How the Curlew got its Curl
Inbetween-Rain
Just January
Last in Flower
Lift Thou Up Thy Rod
The Longest Day of the Year
The Lull in the Air
Midnight Flurry
Month of Fertility
My Leaping Friend
The Name of the Wind
New Year’s Day
Nicholmas Daisies
Oak Apple Day
Open Season
Precipitation
Purple in May
Revolution of the Seasons
Season’s Fleetings
Snow Angels
Snowfall in London
Song of Summer
Sparkle in the Rain
Sprung
Storm Warning
Summer Begins at Midsummer
’Tain’t the Season
The Thick in the Air
Three Songs for May
Tour de Force
Twenty-Eight Alone
Warm-Water Waves
Wash Day
Wearing White for Eastertide
Wet Rain & Dry Rain
The Witching Hour
Winter Jacks
Winter Lows
A Year without a Summer
Poems about Birds:
Poems about Cats:
Poems about the Countryside:
Poems about Dinosaurs & Reptiles (& Fossils):
Poems about Evolution:
Poems about Fishes & Other Sealife:
Poems about Human Biology:
Poems about Insects:
Poems about other Invertebrates:
Poems about Mammals (except Humans and Cats):
Poems about Microbes:
Poems about Plants:
Poems about Spiders:
Poems about the Weather & the Seasons:
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