July first two thousand and twenty five
...July first two thousand and twenty five...
signals the eighth year we lived
at our present location,
where fringe benefits (a plug) for perks
living at 2 highland manor drive.
Expanse of green...
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Categories:
lorikeet, adventure, america, anniversary, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
The Birds
...Reclined under the shade of a snag tree,
A babbler piqued my curiosity.
Staggered by the companionship, initially.
Then pleased.
I discerned a lamenting warble...
The massif offered commiserat...
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Categories:
lorikeet, 4th grade, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Romanticism
Glory
...I have watched tree-giants
in deep forest-cathedrals
declare glory, speak of heaven
in sanctuaries where birds rejoice
between branches
under leafy-windows
– green and gold.
I have seen ...
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Categories:
lorikeet, natural disasters,
Form: Free verse
Fringe Benefits a Plug For Perks Yo Man Living At 2 Highland Manor Drive
...Fringe benefits (a plug) for perks (yo man) living at 2 highland manor drive
Expanse of green acres draped
like a petticoat when ye arrive
birds of a feather flock together
and bees gather coll...
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Categories:
lorikeet, adventure, age, america, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Hello King Daddy
...feeding on pollen and nectar
sweeping it in with brush tipped tongue
rainbow lorikeet is an excellent talker
I teach him to say king daddy
so I can keep him...
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Categories:
lorikeet, bird,
Form: Free verse
Puppet Associates
...Hope was Burrow's substance, where he poured his time,
Pedalling steadily.
Intended path made smooth for those in legacy line.
Sliced through wiry roots,
Watchguard Wombat dug safety spaces.
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Categories:
lorikeet, analogy, animal, bird, caregiving,
Form: Narrative
So Many Colorful Birds
...If you want a treat, look up the most colorful birds
Ever made by God, and you will come up with the best.
Paradise tanager, red-bearded bee-eater, macaw. My word!
What a fantastic creature in and...
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Categories:
lorikeet, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Rainbow Lorikeet
...My bird is springtime with its green,
Summer with its yellow,
It blazes fall in its red and orange,
And ruffles it’s icy, blue, indigo and violet feathers,
Though it lives in its humid home,
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Categories:
lorikeet, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Uncovered Gifts
...UNCOVERED GIFTS
Oppressed,
hidden,
covered,
choked,
overgrown,
in the garden and the lives
of living things
and many folks,
for in amongst
there are things of attraction,
that when smo...
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Categories:
lorikeet, encouraging, perspective,
Form: Free verse
The Rainbow Lorikeet
...The bully of the parrot world, the Rainbow Lorikeet
To find one that was friendly, would be quite a feat
They will fight all other parrots, those larger and the small
They always fight among thems...
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Categories:
lorikeet, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Intensity
...rolling green hills, woods
noon sun and black-eyed susans
northern lights sunset
cherry trees, two hearts
lavender fields and lilacs
lorikeet rainbow...
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Categories:
lorikeet, color, green, nature, nice,
Form: Haiku
Call Me Birdseye Pete
...If I was an Australian lorikeet
I’d allow you to call me Mr. Birdseye Pete
Flying to the East Indies rather neat
Yes I would travel far to find my sweet.
Pretty nest we’d make that you could not ...
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Categories:
lorikeet, fun,
Form: Monorhyme
Friends of Wattle Creek
...For many years, the creek, ran passed as a drain,
Polluted and unloved; a poisoned murky vein.
A favoured dumping place, for household unwanted things -
out of sight, out of mind; and no good what...
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Categories:
lorikeet, environment, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Wheels of Marbles
...Wheels of Marbles
Your mind- a box,
box on wheels
of marbles
to gallop in
the world of
imagination.
You canter on
these imaginative
marbles like
hurting words
of your poems.
O’,...
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Categories:
lorikeet, words,
Form: Free verse
Rainbow Colored Camouflage
...Rainbow colored camouflage, some may think, what a ridiculous idea, what a ridiculous idea, for rainbows are rare and high in the air, so what benefit would it have? Unless you were trying, to reckon...
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Categories:
lorikeet, beautiful, bird, color, environment,
Form: Narrative
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