AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes

AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes
I love a sunburnt country / A land of sweeping plains / Of ragged mountain ranges / Of droughts and flooding rains / I love her far horizons / I love her jewel-sea / Her beauty and her terror / The wide brown land for me / ~ Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968)

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Saturday, June 28, 2008

Kookaburra Curiosity

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Curiosity begins with one watcher
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Writer's Island prompt ~ Curiosity
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Kookaburra curiosity is
Subtle curiosity
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The play begins with
A lonely watcher
Who looks as if he is intrigued
With somewhere else
But just happens
To be in a tree
Overlooking your driveway
And just happens
To have landed there
When you drive home
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ There are 2 of us here!
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Kookaburra curiosity is all about
Keeping movements
In leafy shadows
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ 2 watchers in waiting
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It is all about being
Cool
Nonchalent
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Curiosity is tuned teamwork
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It is all about being
Tuned
Together
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ 3 cosy Kookaburras
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It is all about looking
Cute ~
Pretending your movements
Are of passing interest ~
But when you toss down
Some food
We will gracefully dive down
Just short of where the food lies ~
Watch you ~
And then hop over
To partake in your offerings
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We will reward you with
A roll of hearty laughter
In some distant
Shady
Leaves
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10 comments:

Jeques said...

Gemma,

Your collection of photographs and poem of birds are lovely. I have noted how this inspired your writing and your output is just so amazing. You must be enjoying your bird watching as evident in all these poems and photographs. Trully inspirational!

I wish you well.

~ Jeques

Forgetfulone said...

Cute poem and photos!

Stan Ski said...

The sillhoutte images add to the sense of quiet, confident, patient intent highlighted by the words.
- I was always curious to know exactly what a kookaburra was.

Edward S Gault said...

I always wondered what a kookaburra looked like! Thank You for the lovely poem and the superb
photography.

Robin said...

I wonder how many of us immediately started singing the kookaburra song upon reading this without having ever before known what a kookaburra looked like!

totomai said...

liked the sequence of the photos and the words thats with them. the concluding stanza is very very apt :-)

Anonymous said...

So that's a Kookaburra! I thought it was a thing like a Didgeridoo!

I loved your chain of pics and words - and I learned something today!

paisley said...

all i can think of is the little kookaburra song we learned in grade school....

"laugh kookaburra, laugh kookaburra, thats no monkey thats me....."

Max-e said...

Hi Gemma, thanks for stopping by my site. I have emjoyed browsing through your site and seeing your photos and reading your writing.

This post reminds me of the song "Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree", which was a hit in South Africa way bak in the early sixties - or earlier. I remember my older cousins singing it.

Constance Brewer said...

Nice! Tells me all about a bird I've never seen and never heard, only heard of. :)

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