Mattie and Myrna
...Mattie and Myrna
Mattie and Myrna have become my pals
Though it wasn't that way from the start
They're nothing like dear Red and Goldie
But over time they've won my heart.
Red and Goldie use...
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Categories:
mynahs, bird, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Melodious Symphony
...Spring the magical season of natural splendour,
It's glory brightens and blooms every life,
Birds chirp in meadows and call for their mates;
The tap-tap of the woodpeckers,
And their court...
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Categories:
mynahs, bird, spring,
Form: Free verse
A Winter Morning In Dehradun
...Darkness persists,
Then in moments appears the vitreous hue
On the horizon
as vision from nowhere filters through
the benighted heavens
the lonesome moon shivers
in apprehension
as her belam...
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Categories:
mynahs, beauty, nature, sun, winter,
Form: Blank verse
Birdsbellow
...Flock of birds met in a marsh
Dusky breeze welcoming all
Sat on the branches of mangrove
Chirping, clattering on mighty matters.
Sharing nuts, grains, seeds and saplings
Teasing one another with...
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Categories:
mynahs, bird, nature,
Form: Free verse
Furry Friends, Our Farm Heroes
...When I went back home for longer vacation
Surprised to see our backyard turning out to be a mini-zoo
My younger brother had adopted lots of pets
Winged, furry, reptiles… I couldn’t name t...
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Categories:
mynahs, animal, pets, , cute,
Form: Narrative
The Barren Gulmuhar Tree
...I open the door
to balcony,
a rush of dimmed sun rays
touches my face gently,
a gush of cool breeze,
caresses me tenderly.
The gentle breeze,
sways the wind chimes,
a soft tinkling sound,
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Categories:
mynahs, nature, nostalgia,
Form: Blank verse
The Mynah Birds Cry
...I fell asleep beneath the Elm
and thus began to dream.
Whilst sleeping sound in sleeper’s realm,
the Mynah birds did sing,
and whispered unto me a spree of many a curious thing –
that I should...
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Categories:
mynahs, bird, death, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Winter
...winter dawn
a patch of clouds
blossom a bare tree
holding on
with what she left behind
winter moon
winter rain
the urge to feel
the newborn
full moon
winter’s stillness
in a soap bubble
u...
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Categories:
mynahs, winter,
Form: Haiku
Ode To My Neighbour the Woodpeckers
...By Sashi. Prabhu(zeauoxian) 1/3/2012.
Often, I glimpse from my roof top garden, leftward,
From the sedentary swing but I know the descent of woodpeckers have soared.
From the vertical ...
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Categories:
mynahs, friendship, happiness, life, social,
Form: Rhyme
The Walking Trees
...The Peepal timidly peeped
From amid those tiny cracked bricks
Seeking the warm sunlight
It spread its arms wide
The rain water tenderly seeped
Nurturing this sapling that bravely sticks
Its h...
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Categories:
mynahs, nature,
Form: Rhyme