Best Honeyeaters Poems

Haiku-flowers and hummingbirds


Dripping with nectar
Baskets rampant with fushia
Honeyeaters feast



Margaret Foster. April 2012...

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"Pulmonary"



Revelations burn pulmonary
when all the bees no longer roar
life drowns in blue-green

Clairvoyants dance in time 
with prophets to flux events
Light folds Dark inside out 

Lizards Popes and Politicians
tread water in their black oceans
looking for an open door

Revelations burn pulmonary
when all the bees no longer roar
life...

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The sun is rising at my back;
across the land’s a lemon glow,
to brighten up my backdrop,
where pristine vegetation grow.

I’m sitting down upon my porch,
with coffee cup held in my hand;
a slice of toast with vegemite,
while I’m gazing at the woodland.

I’m taking in the morning chorus,
that...

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While the red gums bloom
the honeyeaters
quarantine my garden
from other bird species
even my best mate
the little blackbird
hides behind garden pots
terrified
when he visits....

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All is bright, and I betwixt God and you,
  the kookaburra is in the willow,
and honeyeaters in the honeydew
  flitter as I lay your breast and pillow.
You are my morning and evening star,
  sweet inveigler to the unpracticed heart -
girl, all I...

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My neighbour
wondered where all the birds were going to
"to my yard,"
I replied
the Cockatoos for the green almonds
Blackbirds and Mynas for ground cover insects
Crows bark-scavenging for borers and tree worms
Honeyeaters fighting all comers for flowering red gums pollen
Pigeons fossicking the soil minding their own business
to finish...

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