Fate defied

March 11, 2022March 11, 2022 mattautumn, birds, canberra, haiku, painting, poetry, watercolours, weebill4 Comments

Tiny yellow leaves  
Flutter inevitably 
No wait! They're weebills!

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I’m a weebill I'm
a weebill I'm a weebill
Squeaks the proud weebill

Moonlighting

February 23, 2022 mattbirds, canberra, cockatoo, haiku, painting, poetry, summer, watercolours, zen3 Comments

In a cloak of fog 
the sun impersonates 
the full moon

Fantails

February 9, 2022 mattbirds, canberra, fantail, haiku, painting, poetry, watercoloursLeave a comment

Flittering fantails -
Delighted by the insects 
Unimpressed by me

Dawn ceremony

January 15, 2022 mattbirds, canberra, cockatoo, haiku, mountain, painting, parrot, poetry, sumi e, summer, tree, writing, zen1 Comment

Reverent attendees 
honour this dawn, except the  
Loudmouth cockatoos

Summer dusk

January 11, 2022 mattbirds, canberra, clouds, cockatoo, haiku, painting, parrot, poetry, sky, summer, sunset, tree, zenLeave a comment

Cloudless twinkling sky 
Cockatoos snuggle to sleep 
Scent of eucalypts

Eligible bachelor: satin bowerbird

January 2, 2022 mattbirds, bowerbird, canberra, collage, haiku, Lisa, painting, poetryLeave a comment

Song of mimicry
Something old; new; borrowed; blue 
His charm beckons me 

* by Lisa

Yellow-tailed black cockatoo

December 29, 2021December 29, 2021 mattbirds, canberra, clouds, cockatoo, collage, haiku, Lisa, painting, parrot, poetry, skyLeave a comment

Evocative skies
Spread over with mournful cries
Touches of yellow 

* By Lisa

Curlews

December 15, 2021 mattAnna, birds, canberra, curlew, haiku, painting, poetryLeave a comment

Quietly watching
long moon shadows in stillness
Wailing to the night 

🖊 Anna
🎨 Matt

Summer morning

December 6, 2021 mattbirds, canberra, cockatoo, haiku, painting, parrot, poetry, summer4 Comments

Summer stirs awake 
A curious cockatoo
Chews the drying wood

Grass parrot

November 28, 2021December 16, 2021 mattbirds, canberra, haiku, painting, parrot, po, poetry1 Comment

Strutting in the grass
Turquoise bonnet shimmering
Flaunting that red rump

🖊🎨 by Po