rain

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Australia, birds, haiku, nature, poem, poetry, weather

On a hot Australian afternoon

rain rattles red roofs
cockatoo cacophony
perfumed petrichor

Orange

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ants, Australia, banksia, beauty, flower, haiga, haiku, tree

On antipodean beauty

delight to the eye
full of ants seeking breakfast
orange banksia

( I have no idea why ‘ Comments’ is turned off on this post, settings are for ‘on’.)

Big Bird

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Australia, birds, haiga, haiku, nature, pelican, poem, poetry, robin, wildlife

exotic bird life
Australian Pelican
a robin it’s not!

Melt

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Australia, eucalyptus, haiga, haiku, heat, photo, photography, poem, poetry, weather

Urban Australia
Elegant eucalyptus
Hot, melted ice cream

Sun!

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Australia, birds, haiku, kookaburra, nature, poem, poetry, weather

On a change of climate

kookaburra calls
unmistakably Ozzy
sunshine for a month!

Red

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Australia, climate, haiku, nature, poetry, weather

On great sorrow

red skies bring dark days
such heartbreaking images
Australia burns

Australia Day

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Australia, celebration, haiku, poetry, shiraz, wine

Spent the day afloat

Sunshine, sail and fine red wine

Sealegs desert me

Down under

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Australia, evolution, haiku, insects, nature, poetry

Different insects

Some weird and wonderful

Same survival wars

travelling

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Australia, haiku, holiday, poetry, rucksack, travel

trusty rucksack packed
desert boots patched, shorts dusted
southern hemisphere

new love

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Australia, drinking, humour, poem, poetry, relationships, shiraz, tanka, wine

(tragic tanka)

I’m with my new love
an Australian shiraz
we get on so well
but it may not last for long
she has that empty feeling