A Short Drive
...A couple of 'roos
A joey standing forlorn by it's unmoving mother
A few wallabies
A brick of a wombat
An Echidna
A heap of budgies
A raven
Some pretty green grass parrots
Cockies and galahs
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Categories:
galahs, sad,
Form: Free verse
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:
galahs, morning, muse, nature, night,
Form: Free verse
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:
galahs, peace, symbolism, war,
Form: Free verse
Pitter Patter Misty Rain
...Watching the misty rain
Falling on the eucalyptus gum leaves
The Galahs are squawking
While I sit in my chair and deep breath
The whistling sounds of a variety of birds
Puddles forming on the...
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Categories:
galahs, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Christmas Day Near Massacre
...When we were kids, kids we were without no pain or fears,
we’d do the ‘devilish’ of things to impress our peers.
The biggest dare or bravest feat would for the pack be tried.
Lord knows now when I...
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Categories:
galahs, humor,
Form: Rhyme
My Hearts In Australia
...My hearts in Australia
On the dusty hot plains
As the galahs chatter in in their pink fine regalia
And will for me forever remain
My heart will remain in the blue crystal water
On the white ...
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Categories:
galahs, earth, nature,
Form: Ballad
Rude Awakening
...Am sure it was a competition
To see who could wake the humans
The cockatoos started the show
With their flamboyant flight
And ruckus callings
joined by the mad galahs
Their screeching an radic...
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Categories:
galahs, bird,
Form: Free verse
The Darkening Shadows
...The yellow dying sun throws lingering light
As the hills are bathed in pastel colours towards night
The trees are filled with pink galahs
And you can hear their incessant chattering from afar
T...
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Categories:
galahs, world,
Form: Ballad
Possums On the Run - Part 2
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"Possums on the Run - Part 2"
No ice cream,
cupboard’s bare
ultra Fahrenheit sun,
hang out the clothes
do the dinner run,
setting table,
setting sun,
Can of Irish Stew, mashed...
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Categories:
galahs, childhood, father daughter, journey,
Form: Free verse
Bird Bath
...BIRD BATH
Late afternoon has arrived,
I hear happy sounds so clear,
These come each day in hot weather
Bringing me chirps of good cheer.
Birds are playing in the bird bath
They drink and s...
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Categories:
galahs, bird,
Form: Rhyme
What Noise Annoys
...Buoy noise annoys an oyster in bed
Grandma hates Galahs screeching overhead
My dog can't stand vacuum cleaner whirl
Kids hate the noise of nails on chalkboard swirl
Annoyance of noise builds to...
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Categories:
galahs, anger, conflict, sound,
Form: Rhyme
Snake Keeps Galahs Outa Cars
...Snake Alarm
I have a mate called Paddy,
Who lives inside me car,
He never made it home to daddy,
He's brown n long haha,
He loves dem little brown Frogs,
He'll slurp n suck em down,
Brown boot...
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Categories:
galahs, courage,
Form: Ballad
Rooboy
...ROOBOY
Between the spinifex and gibber, across the dry, hot sand,
Lenny sits as proud as punch with the leather straps in hand,
His roo it has a saddle and a bit between its teeth,
When he want...
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Categories:
galahs, animal, children, funny,
Form: Lyric
From An Eagle's Eye
...Distant mountains, a purple haze,
Kangaroo stands up to gaze,
Station horses and sheep graze,
On an unforgiving plain.
Red gums line a bone-dry creek,
Pink galahs swirl and shriek,
Bones are ...
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Categories:
galahs, bird, nature,
Form: Lyric
Sunrise Breaks On a Morning Camp
...It’s been a long day beneath hot sun,
with sunset looming and daylight done,
came across water with a stand of trees,
deep in shadow with a zephyr breeze;
a perfect place to camp for the night,
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Categories:
galahs, bird, nature,
Form: Rhyme
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