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Cockatoos Poems - Poems about Cockatoos

Premium Member Zinc White and Blue Ultramarine
... I hear currawongs threading their melodic calls through the trees, sewing a dark into the cold air. And far below, a flock of white cockatoos screech their noisy chaos along the deepening......

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Categories: cockatoos, art, bird, blue, color,
Form: Free verse
Ashes
...Charred wood and ash stink, after fires in Garigal high-country. A single crow cries road-side, on a black tree-post guarding road kill – a round brown wallaby with feet stuck-up. Ash co......

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Categories: cockatoos, fire, nature, tree,
Form: Free verse



Overcast Morning with The Birds
...Milky bright sky with rain in her net Morning performance with native duet Whip cracks and choo-choos crescendo in song Spurring near aves to jolly along The flightless young to pipe up and squaw......

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Categories: cockatoos, bird, morning, rain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 12 Days of Aussie Christmas
...On the 1st day of Christmas my true love sent to me, A koala in a gum tree On the 2nd day of Christmas my true love sent to me, Two parrakeets. On the 3rd day of Christmas my true love sent to me......

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Categories: cockatoos, drink,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Way Down Under
...Oh, so bluest the sky doth shine A hint of the new season’s ploy, Sweet November a springtime shrine Grains of golden sands of pure joy. Towards December’s hottest sun Where the dust is stirre......

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Categories: cockatoos, nature,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Barking Up the Wrong Tree
... “Barking Up the Wrong Tree” ghost gums shed their bark the min-min makes good use of it papyrus, soft enough to imprint and write thoughts, like the ripening welt......

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Categories: cockatoos, morning, muse, nature, night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Life For Me
...For far shires beyond the western red sun I’m leaving the Land of the Long White Cloud - to journey across the far horizon where cockatoos in bloodwoods sing aloud. Trading in my black si......

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Categories: cockatoos, journey, leaving,
Form: Sonnet
Dusk On the Murray River
...Dusk On the Murray River A crimson red blanket hangs over the river, shrouding its steep muddy banks. This is dusk on the Murray River, the Mississippi of this great land. Fifteen hundred miles ......

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Categories: cockatoos, bird, river,
Form: Prose
Premium Member War and Peace
...on full volume, play at quality x720p "War and Peace" strange birds flying freedom wings it was a clear blue sky day punctuated by white surrendering ......

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Categories: cockatoos, peace, symbolism, war,
Form: Free verse
Walking Past the Traffic Lights
...Walking past the traffic lights I’m walking past the traffic lights when I see a running knight, He was running from a giant with an almighty height. As I walked further I saw something flutteri......

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Categories: cockatoos, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Paradoxically, Wrong Time
...we only wanted to be kids not heroes. we wanted to catch ships of clouds at the sky not black seadevils in the drain. we wanted lemons for lemonade not salt for our wounds. but there it came ......

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Categories: cockatoos, dream, imagery, surreal,
Form: Free verse
So Stand the Fallen
...Very soon marmosets and moose will get their vaccines. A lone gnome fishes in a Koi pond. The light of the moon has been dimmed by a Chinese switch. Elite bands of cockatoos fight for fre......

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Categories: cockatoos, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Love Aves
...Three black cockies Sitting in a tree, Big black cockies Noisy as can be. Red-tailed cockies Sharing all the news, Love them all very much My friends; black cockatoos.......

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Categories: cockatoos, bird, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Methodical Disposition-
...Purple shadows dancing and laughing with clowns How does it matter when the grim reaper smiles Vultures and dragons fly missed horizon Parrots and cockatoos squawk talk through wireless c......

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Categories: cockatoos, analogy, confusion, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
New Vocab
...Every lingo does evolve, We borrow words, I'm told, I have croissant, pizza and latte, Pen pal in Beirut, I might say, I live in Woollomooloo, Where we parrot like cockatoos, Now it's all Engl......

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Categories: cockatoos, growth, language,
Form: Free verse

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