Best Kookaburra Poems

it matters to not be able to tell
    where you end 
  and comfort begins
    seamlessly held by another 
with nature to rest within
    we're all of the same matter
    then the...

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The Kookaburra, this terrestrial Kingfisher like bird
With it's onomatopoeic call, laughter in it's world
They inhabit arid savanna's and humid forests so lush
Also suburban to residential, as all around them humans rush

These beautiful birds are sexually dimorphic in their look
Their plumage sometimes differs, but in some...

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Snake hunting bird in silent trance 
Iconic outline on the branch 
As daybreak dies, with laughter, quiet 
You quell your deadly appetite 

Your searching eye from tilted head 
Has spied a rocky sun-warmed bed 
A silent slither from the grass 
A wary reptile dares to...

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“Now behind the eyes and secrets of the dreamers in the streets rocked to sleep by the sea, see the titbits and topsyturvies, bobs and buttontops, bags and bones, ash and rind and dandruff and nailparings, saliva and snowflakes and moulted feathers of dreams, the...

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A kookaburra laughing way up high
     Caused a little boy to sigh,
    "Can't you find another way
 To welcome in the brand new day,
 It's so hard to get some shut-eye."...

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The Kookaburra
                              Frank Halliwell

They congregate at break of day,
when night is almost done,
for a joyous benediction
to...

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This feathered comedian 
sits perched on a suburban fence
scanning for what crawls the ground
or pokes a careless head up to break
the surface of a backyard pond,
stropps its beak to clean off
the leftovers from its last kill,
lifts its head and laughs.

But there is no frivolity trumpeting...

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What kind of faerie has her very own kookaburra?
I do not own him, he is my best friend, the tree faerie said.
But he is always with you, helping you dust the willy whacker leaves.
He does that by himself, she told the elf. He has that...

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Kookaburra chuckles me to sleep in my deep, deep dreams
Knowing he will sound the alarm in morning sunbeams
My rat terrier awakes with a start, dreams gone, new part...

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Misery asphyxiates

         as the world disintegrates,

                  yet the kookaburra laughs...
 
         ...

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perched on a gum tree
                                      kingfisher ogles the...

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noisy ugly bird
I dislike kookaburra
dark brown with big nose...

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