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 a dual lullaby
Listening to a lay from Lake Lethe,
Eyes lit in lambent love.
Luck lifted their luminousness.
Greek Lord livid at their love
Lashed lightning
And locked them both out
Love flickered into oblivion.
Placed 1
11 December 2020
Alliteration Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Eve Roper
Categories:
lorikeets, lost love,
Form: Alliteration
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
The ancient ones
Murmuring
As if a flock
Of lorikeets
Have taken up
The gypsy dance
Around that fire
That has died
Or is it
My heart
That is
Dead
And my mind
It has melted
Into a
Murmuring flock
Of lorikeets
On me
Setting head
Categories:
lorikeets, motivation,
Form: Free verse
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.
What an adventure
To see colorful birds that God designed.
Delightful feathered creatures
Of all different kinds
Spread out through the pages of this book for
All of mankind
To see our earthly treasures
What an adventure
To see colorful birds that God designed.
Categories:
lorikeets, adventure, art, beauty, bird,
Form: Roundel
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 the frost is on the slopes
the naked orchard anticipates
the saw and the secateurs
huddled workers around a rusting tractor
breathing mist to the mist
wait patiently for the diesel to thaw
hushed they spy the mountain lorikeets
flashing crimson and ultramarine among the branches
free from their daily shreak and chatter
each one alights alone upon a silver branch
perfect silence abounds in the zen moment
slowly they begin to chime one to another
single notes of living sound ring across the white hollow
no temple bell can imitate or artist's brush convey
such transcendent beauty
the bright-eyed workers stand transfixed
dawn's first breath precedes the rising of the sun
perhaps it is the deepest sigh
of the very queen of heaven
walking as she would
wakening the minds of men from their long slumber
to become aware of her untamed beauty
before it fades forever from the world
Categories:
lorikeets, nature,
Form: Idyll (Idyl)
In summer showers
sunlight breaks into rainbows
As lorikeet's play
© Brenda V Northeast 23/ Jan./ 2012
Categories:
lorikeets, animals, life, nature,
Form: Haiku
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
Shall
pray for thee
Upon
the highest branch
Categories:
lorikeets, imagination,
Form: Free verse
rainbow lorikeets
joined in mating
spin around
hang from branch
together singing
Categories:
lorikeets, animals, funny, love, nature,
Form: Light Verse
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 walls..
Old ,loose fitting, rusty handles on doors
The house is empty,rotting junk mail aplenty
A vine inside creeped in from the floorboards
No kitchen,no handrail,where are the landlords?
A peaceful view of a backyard with a wild turkey
Lorikeets happily feasting on bright flowered tree.
Misty sun showers on a western mountain horizon.
She said "Do you like what you see of our discovery?"
Her pointy nose + fine sense of scent lead us there.
Categories:
lorikeets, confusion, history, loss, mystery,
Form: Sonnet