Nature Albatross Poems

Edge what remains their last hope, be enshrined,
be the breeding atolls summoned to mind.
Albatross are one of the bird's largest.
These goliath's wingspans are the longest,
which...

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We are mislabeled as sea birds and should be called
big birds, like that yellow one but we're not yellow.
We never land on land for a...

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Accepting the zeitgeist
Adapting to challenges
Avoiding all dangers
Amusing with the mate
Attending the young ones
Aspiring to fly far…
Ah! What an existence!...

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Good luck to you! 
as you try to stop
this runaway train of thought
heading off the rails

Serenely setting sail
into the bliss of the blue sea

Saliently signaling...

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They called you Grandma - 
         matriarch of Taiaroa Head. 
Your husband of seventeen years, Blue Green,
...

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THE CROW

crows constantly caw
cacophony of sound bites
Impassioned birdlife


THE SEAGULL

seagull invasion
It's every bird for himself
aggression with wings 


THE ALBATROSS

albatross gliding
thermal uplift and bird soars
fine sight to...

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Tasting the breeze 
High in the clouds she glides
Fjords far below 
Ebbing and flowing on tides
White sanded beaches 
Skirt azure blue waters
Sheep tread the hillsides...

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THE ALBATROSS
Under thunder blows a colder wind, across an endless sea,   
Like a voice from the call of a far off shore in...

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A feather afloat
Just one of but many
On a creature a-soar 
Over waters so plenty
A landscape of blue
Fills up every sight
Both above and below
With occasional white
Skimming...

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Masterfully mounting ocean winds 
unperturbed by turbulence.
Vibrant in the charcoal skies, 
looming o'er cream tipped surf.
Hear his song a shrill sonnet, 
a beckon to those...

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To be like the Albatross
Most of the day on high currents gliding
Circling wind systems lifted flying...

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Night and day, 
the wings ache 
This wind, 
keeps him awake 

I see you there, 
cruising the sea air 
This long wing, 
comforting 

Night and...

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