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Galahs Poems - Poems about Galahs

Premium MemberA 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

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"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

Premium MemberRude 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

Premium MemberPossums 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

Premium MemberWhat 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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