Stray Birds Rabindranath Tagore - 320 short poems by Rabindranath Tagore. These poems are beautiful, thought provoking, and somewhat reminiscent of Haiku. Known mostly for his poetry, the author also wrote novels, essays, short stories, travelogues, dramas, and thousands of songs. Stray Birds are short poems, short aphorisms which embody his love of nature and love of simplicity.