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Le Courlis Poussa Des Cris -Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal's the Curlew Cried By T Wignesan

Le courlis poussa des cris – Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s « The Curlew Cried » by T. Wignesan

(Note d’Oodgeroo : Le courlis fut le frère...

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Categories: curlew, best friend, death, heaven,
Form: Dramatic Verse

An Eternity Ii

And I begin my own steep climb into 
The Chalkland Downs              ...

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Categories: curlew, betrayal, , memorial,
Form: Rhyme

Egnehenots: Earth and Stone

Egnehenots – of earth and stone

Chief elder – most wise upon the Salisbury Plain
     an old man . . . ...

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Categories: curlew, life, light, love,
Form: Free verse

Lost

A cloudless day, should have been warm but the frigid southern roaring 40’s cut like flailing daggers into the skin, leaving bones and joints to...

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Categories: curlew, adventure, child, fear,
Form: Free verse

Haiku Marsh

Out of the vast marsh
plaintive grey curlew calling -
my sister scolding me....

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Categories: curlew, bird, sister,
Form: Haiku

Recollections From the Golden Cree I

I know of a river of more than average 
Sorts...
Meandering, when not dallying to maunder,
Between many differing contours 
And unruly contorts;
Where a privileged youth once
Happily...

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Categories: curlew, growing up,
Form: Rhyme

The Lament

Solomly the mist drifted aimlessly,
cloaking moor and heather, the 
curlew and grouse silenced by
the haunting of a solitary piper.
Kilt clad from rocky outcrop,
the lament Land...

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Categories: curlew, loss
Form: Prose Poetry

The Featherbeds

The feather beds are a string of mountains near where I live, famous for its raised bog lands, where my father and his brothers cut...

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Categories: curlew, childhood, dad, growing up,
Form: Free verse

As If To Remind Me

As if 
To remind me 
Of past sorrows, 
The plaintive cry of a curlew 
In the distance. 

       W.A....

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Categories: curlew, introspection, sorrow,
Form: Tanka

Birdwatcher

Birdwatcher

This passionate, keen Ornithologist, 
Is an interest, I profoundly pursue. 
With the upmost of dedication, 
To Black Tern & Long Billed Curlew. 
 
Never a...

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Categories: curlew, beach, bird, garden, imagery,
Form: Light Verse

Wild Life Words

Adder,badger
barn owl
             black hairstreak
silver studded blue
damsel fly
fritillary
      ...

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Categories: curlew, bereavement, nature,
Form: Free verse

A Haiku Anthology

life without love
was how nature planned it
instinct was the way

instinct was the way
was how nature planned it
life without love

symbiosis
when two become partners
instinctive for one

instinctive for...

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Categories: curlew, nature,
Form: Haiku

The Narcissist

Me a bush stone curlew,
And this is my fond view—
There's none whoso like me
In all space, land and sea,
An if one does exist,
Bird it be,...

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Categories: curlew, bird, humor, image, mirror,
Form: Verse

A February Day

On a cold and frosty morning I gazed across fair fields, woods and copses,
I heard a wood-lark sing a sweet song, so sweet, hairs on...

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Categories: curlew, nature, old, old,
Form: Prose Poetry

Farrio Onis Ferratus

Ranted I in fiery dance
Upon the rushed floor.
It plyeth mosaicate from out my thought.
Lucid it creels through battlement and prepapace.
Upon this tower, I cleveth Erin’s...

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Categories: curlew, life,
Form: Rhyme