Poems written by Peter Gibbs over 60 years, inspired by romance, travel, the beauty of nature, emotions and family and friends - peterspoetry.co.uk 

Lapwings Murmuration

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Forget those boring starlings

That others rush to see

A flock of swooping lapwings

Have more appeal for me

Swirling with their piping calls

Their wings of black and white

Create a murmuration that

Knocks others out of sight

Then settling on the shallows

Before the Quantock Hide

Delighting all the birders

Watching warm inside.

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