Tiny yellow leaves
Flutter inevitably
No wait! They're weebills!
*
I’m a weebill I'm
a weebill I'm a weebill
Squeaks the proud weebill
Fate defied
poetry
Spotted tail quoll
The spotted tail quoll
Once widespread on the mainland.
But they will be back...
✏️ Paula
🎨 Gus (8 years old)
Moonlighting
In a cloak of fog
the sun impersonates
the full moon
Blue footed booby
Blue footed booby
Grows into puberty blues
Then busts out dance moves
✏️+🎨 by Sophie
* Note the blue footed booby is not from Canberra and so this is not strictly a “Canberra haiku”. However Sophie is from Canberra and she dreams of the blue footed booby.
Fantails
Flittering fantails -
Delighted by the insects
Unimpressed by me
Garden Glutton
Curious possum
His eyes sparkle with delight
Apricots await
✏️ Belinda
🎨 Elliott (12 years old)
Wary basker
Vigilant lizard
Agrees to share her sunshine
Just don’t touch her rock!
Dawn ceremony
Reverent attendees
honour this dawn, except the
Loudmouth cockatoos
Summer dusk
Cloudless twinkling sky
Cockatoos snuggle to sleep
Scent of eucalypts
2021 / squid
Hours alone immersed.
Everything in. Out. Done.
2021
* By Jo
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