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Lorikeets Poems - Poems about Lorikeets

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...

Categories: lorikeets, morning, muse, nature, night,
Form: Free verse

L For Lovers

...Legendary lovers lay low,
Lurking longingly like lorikeets,
Languishing beneath a clump of larches,
Lena flirting with Leander
Lunching on lotus flowers,
Lost bearings to all.
Liquored up into ...

Categories: lorikeets, lost love,
Form: Alliteration

Gypsy Dancers

...Gypsy dancers
Have stopped 
Their twirling
The flame
Is still
Upon the fire
The dog
It barks
At the stillness
Of my pen
But not
The stillness 
Of my Heart
I hear the crickets
Crawling
...

Categories: lorikeets, motivation,
Form: Free verse

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Rainbow Lorikeets Macaws and Finches

...What an adventure
To see colorful birds that God designed
In a book someone left behind.
The title was Birds In Nature
When I opened it up I saw some awesome 
Pictures
This was a great find.
W...

Categories: lorikeets, adventure, art, beauty, bird,
Form: Roundel

The Hummingbird Cake

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"The Hummingbird Cake"




The day started bright -

Bright Eggshell Blue
and ended in percussion
dark and cloudy stormed in
thunder pummelled...

Categories: lorikeets, freedom, psychological, romance,
Form: Free verse

Walking, As She Would

...singing, entrancing
the winding stream cleaves the high valley
grey mist consoles silent sentinels
of a remnant sylvan ribbon
midwinter dawn excites the sleeping wild rose
all is whiteness and t...

Categories: lorikeets, nature,
Form: Idyll (Idyl)

Magic Beans

...Magic Beans of Many Colors

In a magical fairyland I reside, 
herons, toucans, rainbow lorikeets, peacock angels,
hummingbirds, ostrich, even a cockatrice
of magnificent colors that harmonize.
...

Categories: lorikeets, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Daybreak 2

...Daybreak 2
                 Frank Halliwell
At first light every morning 
And before  dusk  every night,
All looking for a handout,
And quite sure they'll find a bite.
Of suet and some birdseed
And s...

Categories: lorikeets, world,
Form: Rhyme

Rainbow Lorikeets

...In summer showers
sunlight breaks into rainbows
As lorikeet's play


© Brenda V Northeast  23/ Jan./ 2012...

Categories: lorikeets, animals, life, nature,
Form: Haiku

Rainbow Lorikeets

...a pair of 
rainbow
Lorikeet birds
Spin free 
as a Ferris wheel
Upon 
the highest branch
In the garden of 
a thousand eyes  
from 
their favorite olive green
Pistachio tree
Sun-bake hands ...

Categories: lorikeets, imagination,
Form: Free verse

Birds

...rainbow lorikeets
joined in mating
spin around
hang from branch
together singing...

Categories: lorikeets, animals, funny, love, nature,
Form: Light Verse

The Discovery.

...Heavy,thick dust on the floors and benches
Open back door and a key on the table
Grass uncut, beer bottles strewn about
Brown water spurting out, pipes detached
Original wallpaper melting off the...

Categories: lorikeets, confusion, history, loss, mystery,
Form: Sonnet