My poem: Tyburn: Gen

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Title: Eggs
Poetic form: tyburn
Length: 14
Rating: Gen

freckled
speckled
smooth-shelled
nest-welled
clutched 3x3 freckled, speckled fine
set artfully smooth-shelled, nest-welled 9

Comments

[regshoe]

Beautiful birds, beautiful poem :D

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Aw, thanks! You probably know what they are! To me, they're just 'birds' :?

[regshoe]

Hmm—the top right and middle left are great tits (Parus major), and the two at the bottom might be (slightly inaccurately drawn) European robins (Erithacus rubecula). I don't recognise the top left or middle right. And I'm not so good at eggs as birds themselves, but the shape of the one on the top right makes me think it might be guillemot (Uria aalge)—they nest on cliff ledges, and the very pointy shape of the egg makes sure that if it's knocked against, it rolls round in a tight circle instead of in a straight line off the cliff!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Wow!! Very cool you know all that!!

[regshoe]

Thank you :D