Morepork Poems - Poems about Morepork

...In the tea trees to the whistling song thrush I alone hear the first September dawn, and outside beyond ryegrass, fern and rush glisten woolly coats of sheep early shorn. Smell the petr......

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...You wake me nearly every night with your incessant guttural cries. Tell me what’s wrong and how is it the spotted owl is so wise. I think you wake me on purpose, you eerily l......

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...this is my song, my love song of you, my land, my heart love for green ferns silver beneath volcanic lakes so deep ......

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...Slowly spring sun caresses the land As kowhais will softly provoke Flushes of yellow to gently expand Their buds of the season uncloak Helping bellbirds escape from winter’s last cho......

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...The moon hangs like a giant orb in the sky, so the Morepork ends his plaintif cry. As the new day begins, cicadas begin their incessant din. The rising sun turns the tree tops to a golden green, ......

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