Best Hornbill Poems

The Missus is angry, Rufous told his wife.
Are you sure? She sounds like that a lot.
Her husband just flew off with the babysitter.
That young thing! What? His wife was outraged.

I think so.
The wife grabbed the binoculars.
That’s not the babysitter; that’s his son!
His son looks like...

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That car swishes 
along the forest road.
Who cares 
about a poor bird in the age of lynching?
Its beak with berries in it 
freezes. 
Its mate hears 
wing-beats that never near. 

A bird lover’s thoughts grow 
from the carcass.
He climbs up 
the tree trunk
and drops 
figs...

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monsoon is delayed 
cries out aloud night and day ---
thirst unquenchable
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Random thots
Two hornbills
On a grevillea tree
I look at them eat seed
They soar noisily onwards
Towards the next seedy tree
Send pigeons I had asked Of
Hornbills problems am reminded
There is no washing your hands off
No pigeon just a couple of noisy hornbills
Resting on one neglected grevillea branch

#bubbles_in time
Luis...

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