For this challenge, write an animal poem, ensouled with the animal body in your animal mind. You can embrace the extra-human wherever it is found, in beast, fish, tree, land- or seascape or star canopy.
hard to choose
between the raucous laughing kookaburra
and the larrikin potty mouth cockatoo
both wonderful aussie birds representing
the character of the nation
kookaburras laugh at everything
just like me - irreverent and rebellious
the larrikin potty mouth cockatoo
is just like me too
except
if I were a cockatoo using foul language
everyone would think I was very cute
I enjoyed this poem so much! Hard to choose indeed, but I lean towards the kookaburra, as I laugh at everything too, or I did once. My mom used to say "you think everything is funny." There is much to laugh about in old age - unless you watch the news. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteBirds of a feather, these wisecracking aussie clowns ... thanks for bringing that mind to this feast. It is wise to wear this world that light.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny how a cockatoo can pick up everything you say. haha to the video. Thanks for the laugh
ReplyDeleteWe are all in need of that spirit.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree. I guess we have to be small--or large--with wings to be "cute." Just as well, as at times we are deeper than size and wiser than flight.
ReplyDeleteSome great, uplifting and amusing sounds: thank you!
ReplyDeleteWhat fun. I shudder to think what he was actually saying, however, because I picked up a word here and there!! Left me smiling, tho
ReplyDeleteHow much we Aussies love the sound of the kookaburra, don't we? And the naughty cockies are fun too. I'm like you in both the ways you're like those birds, LOL!
ReplyDeleteOne of my most cherished memories .... Girl Scouts when I was ten or so singing this delightful ditty.
ReplyDeleteKookaburra sits on the old gum tree
Merry merry king of the bush is he
Laugh Kookaburra, laugh Kookaburra
Gay your life must be!
What a surprise that anyone would know that song except an Aussie.
ReplyDeleteThink like you i kean to the kookaburra. I tend to laugh first of all, even when deep thought follow.
ReplyDeleteMuch love
Such a fun read. Well done.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't have thought of those two animals. Thanks for bringing them to life for me.
ReplyDeleteWonderful, fun poem, Rall. Two birds I would love to see.
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