Caged Rainbow
A Northern Australian waterhole;
here a trapper finds his goal.
One finch to surely catch my sight
are Gouldian’s with colours bright.
Blacks, blues and greens; a purple breast.
Yellow with white below the vest.
What shame I own wanting to show -
that I had caged a living rainbow.
Copyright © Lindsay Laurie | Year Posted 2019
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