This trembling bird
...I saw
the rosella
fly down
to the dirt.
I wish
to hold
this trembling bird,
until
it rests
in the curve
in my hand,
until
it trusts
and belongs.
But wings
are for flying
free –
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Categories:
rosella, bird,
Form: Free verse
Blue Shotgun Lantana
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"As other spirits sail on music, mine, oh my love, swim on your perfume." Charles Baudelaire
"Sometimes you find an old bottle from which the soul returns."
Charles Baudelaire
"Smell is...
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Categories:
rosella, muse, mystery, sensual,
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:
rosella, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Her Memory Lives On- Fv
...We shared the same DNA running in our blood
and embraced with love was our deep bond.
It was always completely understood with faith
that we shared a divine friendship so beautiful.
She was...
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Categories:
rosella, family, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Rude Awakening
...Am sure it was a competition
To see who could wake the humans
The cockatoos started the show
With their flamboyant flight
And ruckus callings
joined by the mad galahs
Their screeching an radic...
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Categories:
rosella, bird,
Form: Free verse
If Putin Were a Woman
...If Putin were a woman
I would seduce
And send her a poem every day, exactly after midnight
Once she being seduced, we make a meeting
I wear a puzzle themed-shirt that already be ironed since seve...
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Categories:
rosella, peace, people, war, world,
Form: Free verse
Auntie
...Auntie
In her lofty ways, she was always
the best example of
the stars out-shining the moon.
Her ways of doing things always
correct and proper
she was a student of the Queen.
Place settin...
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Categories:
rosella, eulogy,
Form: Verse
Auntie
...Auntie
In her lofty ways, she was always
the best example of
the stars out-shining the moon.
Her ways of doing things always
correct and proper
she was a student of the Queen.
Place settin...
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Categories:
rosella, memorial day, strength,
Form: Bio
Faces In the Fire
...On those cool summer evenings when coyotes haunt the night
And the campfire is dying—burning low, then flaring bright,
A cowboy plays harmonica while others sing and hum
While down by the chuck wa...
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Categories:
rosella, cowboy-western, death, introspection, loss,
Form: Cowboy Poetry