RAINBOW LORIKEETS
Rainbow Lorikeets and their
close relatives are amazingly bright, noisy, cheerful birds of the
parrot family that live on the East coast of Australia, feeding off
the nectar of various native flowers. The poem has lines of varying
length but they are mostly made of iambic feet (unstressed, stressed-
they come.
RAINBOW
LORIKEETS
They come in furious flight,
to feed on the grevilla's
bright spirallings of gold,
with red, curved beaks,
red, beady eyes
the brightest, swift-winged messengers of day,
a yellow, scarlet-orange, green,
blue-purple sight;
as though, in falling through a rainbow light,
they'd got their motley on the way.
All chattering
and squabbling for a hold,
or strutting wildly, bobbing and bold,
or hanging ludicrously upside down,
they caper like loud clowns,
arrayed in all the colours of the day-
court jesters of the heavens.
Vivid. Eloquent.
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