Great Shakin' poetry and amazing photos. Such beauty in one creature.
rated with love

Nice job, Scanner! Well done. Rated.

You know what they say "birds of a feather"
R

A great example of the amazing beauty in nature.

Scanner ~ what a wonderful and colorful subject to focus on! Thanks for your creative approach and it's little wonder that NBC has used the peacock for so many decades as their logo!

Audaciously, Scannie, you recently defined your blog as 'successful'
now I think I know. To circumvent John Cage, peacocks, thoughts of God!
Picked up 'The Future Starts Here: The Essential Doors Hits' -- stuff is forty plus years old. Hot dam!
Also, I am trying to 'perfect' (humility implied) camera glasses that snapshot when you blink.
Know anybody over at Google Patents?
Also, watch for my 'One Icy Saturday'.

I wisht I could frame the next 24 hours.

Excellent work, sir!


HUMBLE

Its the male species that is glorious riot of color. The female is not much to notice. Don't we all need beauty even if its pompous. I think biologically that male birds must show their poweress and the female really is like at a big supermarket checking out the "good" for her future mate. For me my peacock is Johnny Depp. I look from afar and then Lenny Kravist (sp) is the next order of showy male.

Very interesting poem.

Nicely done. This makes me think of a craft project my mother did. I included it here if you want to take a look. http://open.salon.com/blog/lschmoopie/2010/07/20/words_of_my_mother-_part_5_tapestry
I wish I had it, but one of my sisters was the lucky one.

Scanner - Never eat a White Swan.
The Mute Swan was always Sacred.
In ancient lore - Apollo/Aphrodite`
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Spoke of grace and legendary figures.
Cycnus was many things to many folks.
He was the son of Poseidon and died.

He was killed by Achilles at war - Troy.
He was stripped of his armor - feathers?
Other ancient figures were transformed.
Swans symbolize much in older literature.

Apollo (legend) was changed into a White Swan.
I got to 'brush up on Homer etc., Leda was a Swan.
She wasn't ended up into a bowl of cold Swan Soup.

Greeks had very lively imaginations. We have GOPs.
We get stuck with hollow politicos. Oh yuck Egotism.
Narcissist sure are today's pomp. It's really so`Ill/Ilk.
Thanks.
I am gonna walk in the woods. See Blinddream's Blog?
The Oak and Hemlock Trees are white as White Swans.
It really is so beautiful today. Nature heals if we Pause.
View Beauty.
Truth is Beauty.
Beauty is Truth.
We must Know.
Ay, Hospitality!
Exchange Vice-
for inner Virtue.

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Words ca be dead.
Dead letter so dead.
We best be discerning.
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Again, thank you. Ay.

Those photos are so fun and the poem is perfect for me today. MEN. geez could they be any more proud of their dam feathers. lol.

Beautiful...both the pics and the poem. R

Poetry, too? Damn, man, what aren't you good at? Enjoyed this.

Funny story -- I guy I dated in college grew up on a small farm. One day a peacock and peahen showed up (they mate for life). They stayed and would roost in the trees. I love seeing them. One day we went to visit and their black lab, Cody, ran up to me with a stick to throw for her. I picked it up and it was a leg! The peahen had been hit by a car, and it was her leg. I was horrified.

C'mon...shake your tail feathers. C'mon...shake your tail feathers.
Those birds are magnificent!

Lezlie

Liberally please allow Louis-Ferdinand Celine:

*pg 125 Journey to the End of the Night*

It's not blogging, it's Open Salon:


"The military element round about five o'clock used to growl over its*aperitifs*, which as a matter of fact when I arrived had just been put up in price. A consumers' delegation was going to the governor to ask for an injunction to restrain the profiteering by the liquor merchants in the cassis and absinthe markets. According to certain old stagers, colonizing was becoming more and more arduous on account of ice being available. The introduction of ice into our colonies was, to be sure, a signal for the loss of vitality among the colonizers. Thenceforward, accustomed never to be without his iced drinks, the colonial administrator must needs give up attempting to overcome the climate by his own stoicism alone. ..."



TYPIST

I used to have a picture of a peacock crossing the road, near a pre-school, as they were 'free-range' peacocks from the Zoo, so thanks for reminding me of a happy memory.

I agree with Limb.. Birds of a feather stay together
HUGGGGGGGG

Amazing photos, and poetry!!

Nature nurtures! Thanks for flaunting your prolific side here, Scanner. Poetry, in its purest, is powerful.

Wonderful, scanner!

Guess what. The Japanese did a seven yr study on wild peafowl & concluded that the female peahens were indifferent to the plumage. There goes that theory…now they think it is to intimidate, the feather phastamagoria ….

Why why why these eggheads ask. Why evolve this ridiculous yet, admittedly, beautiful , feature?
Noone suggests: well, just for the damn experience of it, for the peacock, or for whatever made the peacock , and wants to experience through the peacock, peacockery. Uh, am I clear here?
Just for the sheer exuberant beauty of it…….?.................
Well captured in photo and poem..

So cool... we live next door to peacocks...and they are soooo full of themselves!! I can imagine that if they were human they would be supermodels... :))

Love this!
I haven't seen a peacock in real life in ages!
My aunt had peacocks on her farm, such gorgeous critters.....
accompanied by the flat out ugliest voices, those peacocks.
Humor from the Universe.

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Intellectual property blatantly stolen from Myriad ;-)

Simply outstanding in every way.

This is excellent Scanner. I love peacocks.
R♥

Tremendous.

Love it! Peacocks are so beautiful. Love the photos! R

I was waiting for the line "signed, Newt Gingrich"

No wonder they were always Darwin's major nightmare; he could never explain it. Beautiful piece, ScanMan. R

Troth and I 'bumped" on the Open Salon Feed
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Troth reminds me . . . of a rascal commenter
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home-ec-teacher
bringing to 'his' family
soup-kitchen left-overs
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Later?
Behave?
I always do.
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Beauty and booty......hummm....

Ahh, scanner, another entry in to another area and once again, you're cookin' with gas! Hey next time tell me, I've got plenty of peacock pictures and I'll let you use them watermark free!

--r--

I dunno, not sure I'd want a peacock. I prefer to be the pretty one.

Art James, come back and misbehave!

Beautiful.

hey Hey hey ...the birds just great! Colors to die for and enhanced by your fine verse.

And to think I spent years watching the NBC Peacock in black and white. Some of these birds would even look pretty in greyscale.

There's a restaurant here in Austin, Green Pastures, in an old mansion that has peacocks roaming the grounds. Some of them are albino peacocks, pure white. Amazing display when they unfurl their feathers and they make good "watchdogs" with their haunting call.

cute poems beautiful pics.