Long Hornbill Poems

We have gone to the Kruger Park, and are now back,
All roads there are paved,
But for adventure, you can drive along very doable
Sand roads, the crocodile river runs parallel to
These sand roads and if you...

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The fall is being chased by the restless earth
Longing for self-destruct
Melting peat in soil melting contest
Bind the selected space guard
Carbon in the seepage of the earth

Mother Earth sincerely caressed him to death
His life for the...

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CM For A Leader

There lies in him lots of practical wisdom in the thoughts of the Sarawak CM.....
He knows his mind and doing his best is far reaching as he administers...

The Chief Minister admits, in...

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On a hazy day, in the mid of the jungle
through the dense rain forest, we trek;
Where astounding waterfalls spread smoke
and the various birds sing melodious jingles

Swaying lofty trees filter the sunlight,
cause the shadowy effect inside...

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I rose to the sing-song of 
a hornbill
Engaging my morning wrath
in a tease
I graced a sleepy track
with hazy youthful turns
and endless dreamy twists
that end on misty ground
Curled artfully 
around a shedding rinkhals,
on a wooded journey...

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Thirst! Thirst!
Scorching thirst!
What a terrible night!

From head to groin
From hip to tip,
Fire rages.
My entrails shriek and crackle,
As twigs in a forest fire.
My nostrils flare,
With the reeking smell of burnt flesh.
My tongue and gullet,
Melt like plastic...

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The swallowtail butterfly defying all distance
Hold its course against the sun
And seek through space a migrant's chance
Of flying to the land of its birth

The hornbill turtle tunneling its watery way
Swim against the tidal flow
To find...

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The Missus is angry, Rufous told his wife.
Are you sure? She sounds like that a lot.
Her husband just flew off with the babysitter.
That young thing! What? His wife was outraged.

I think so.
The wife grabbed the...

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Shall we go like innocents with heavy
breathing in the pool of blood to find
the innerconnectivity of a boldly beautiful
death ? In the open pit of an ancient gold mine ?

There was a loss of hidden...

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They each have a yellow extension,
Sure there is much more to mention,
Each is known to do a lot to protect,
Neither is known to get much respect.

The Helmeted Hornbill lives in the trees,
Watch out because they...

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Through the forests of Sumatra
Through the dark and sweaty jungle
Proud and fearless pads the tiger
Pads through bamboo, palm, liana
Powerfully swims across the water
Webbed feet pounding ‘gainst the current,
Unaware of near extinction
Forest dwindling, disappearing
Shrinking by illegal...

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trout leaps, splashes back
                        rapid creek, 'neath submerged rock
   ...

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That car swishes 
along the forest road.
Who cares 
about a poor bird in the age of lynching?
Its beak with berries in it 
freezes. 
Its mate hears 
wing-beats that never near. 

A bird lover’s thoughts grow...

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