Wetlands Rule In Australia
...Kakadu Wetlands is home to three million waterbirds
From May to October it houses the comb-crested jacana
Jabirk, egrets and brolga also take their respite here
Macquarie Marshes are used by the W...
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Categories:
waterbirds, travel,
Form: Free verse
Covid Walk
...thermometer reads zero, a chilly breeze blows
apple cores thrown, the blackbirds feed
my multi-layered partner dons her wooly hat
impatiently, she waits for me
securing covid masks amidst...
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Categories:
waterbirds, anxiety, feelings, humanity, journey,
Form: Verse
Soaked In Glory
...The plunging line was?
going deeper, cutting close to
the bone. I was preparing
myself to be martyred
alive.
Prod me viciously, my
love, I want to die in your arms before
the dawn. It shou...
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Categories:
waterbirds, art,
Form: ABC
Heatwave
...I hear that it’s raining in Washington State,
In London there's snow coming down
as I look out across a wide dusty plain,
where everything’s pastel or brown.
I heard reports of below freezing p...
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Categories:
waterbirds, environment, nature, summer,
Form: Rhyme
A Violent Storm
...A Violent Storm
It starts with dying leaves that litter lawns
All tumbled over in remorseless wind
Until at last, defeated, they collect
Behind the garden wall in tattered piles,
Discarde...
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Categories:
waterbirds, nature,
Form: Blank verse