Animals, lyrics
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It was a party of fleas who dropped some tea into the sea,
Created a baby that left its mommy,
Now there is an elephant and donkey in the room,
So, lets ask, who’s the bigger a--?
A spark, a...
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Categories:
cockatoos, animal, november, satire,
Form: Lyric
Zinc White and Blue Ultramarine
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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
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
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
Barking Up the Wrong Tree
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“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
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
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
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
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