SONGBIRD

[Bob Pacey]

What ? Glenny I've been trying to get birds to come inside for years ?


To no avail !

Bob

[Stephen Whiteside]

Have you tried tempting them with a piece of rissole, Bob?

[Glenny Palmer]

Awww! You pipped me at the post Stephen...bit of a worry...

...give 'em some rissole Bob....

[Bob Pacey]

mmmmmm maybe the cherrios were not the right choice ?





Bobbit

[Glenny Palmer]

Maybe Kabana would be better...? Oh dear...(I'll go sit in the corner...)

[Dave Smith]

I think the birds Bob is talking about would need Chocolate and white wine.

TTFN

[alongtimegone]

That's a beautiful poem Maureen. And feeding the maggie is also a beautiful thing to do, although evidence of their visit is usually plain to see.
Wazza

[Maureen K Clifford]

It is Wazza but it's all white

[Neville Briggs]

Maureen....I found this quote by the modern Australian poet, Robert Adamson ( best Poems of 2009, Black Inc )

I thought you might find it interesting.

" People ask me, why are so many bird poems being written and published? I have a theory; we miss having poets among us who can imagine that a soul can 'clap its hands and sing, and louder sing', that we need to to acknowledge visitations by intense psychological presences, and that birds are the closest things we have, more or less, to angels. "



p.s. although a modernist poet, Robert Adamson in 1990 won the C.J.Dennis Prize for Poetry. hmmm

[Maureen K Clifford]

I like that idea Neville - the songs of birds being the songs of departed souls from this earth, maybe the Kookaburras are laughing at the crows who perhaps are long gone politicians or maybe the Lyre bird should have that honour for some would think the curve of its tail represents the horns of the devil.