deserted

inspired by the Morning Porch

Shadows stretch a healing embrace across the shimmering earth. Heat. Light. Dust. Birds, pant. Life stands still waiting for the half-dark. Evening celebration. Night's reprieve.

dream

Inspired by Dave Bonta's Morning Porch

 Each second lasts a week, the toc tic trembles
for a day through the earth. This earth falling
between my fingers. The garden is my hourglass.
Leaves stretch, a flower opens and folds.
A breath. A season.

Peaceful trees, branches meeting, so far away.
Will I ever reach you? I can fly, arms reaching,
sugar glider sails, flying upward, spiralling.
Exhilaration, air and adrenalin, but time still
pins me in place. Intractable dimension.

light

Inspired by Dave Bonta's Morning Porch

Bright heat fills the senses.
Leaves, green flags answering.
Scarlet flowering beans hold close.
Parsley pollen dust like fine snow.

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Tree, your form follows life in honest congruence,
a fibonacci elegance written incrementally,
in amber-red blood and grain.

Sunlight blesses you, telling your story
to the bleached swarf of drying grass.

by Meredith

between the curling grace
the form and fabric
light and shade branching
i sat to speak my mind.

borrowed eloquence and
my friend the tree.
perfect lines join, folding,
jumbled enscriptions read.

flowing water moves like a rumor
bridging continents, tides and tidings
rain and reflection. a pulse.
a shared silence.

blue afternoon

Inspired by Dave Bonta's Morning Porch

 Parrots sing of the Summer in a bleached blue heat.
Beans wave their first fat flags above the earth.
A crowd of melon seedlings push for sunlight.
Curtains breathe slowly. The kitchen smells of mango.

traffic

heat haze,
winding through the trees

orange, black folding leaves
butterflies cross the road

grey shoulders, tall and strong
a koala crosses the road

rain

Tera Zajack via dverse

rain, misty blessing
avian celebration
imagine flying

sound

Inspired by Dave Bonta's Morning Porch

Rain misting across the park in drifts.
A rich mayhem of songs, but I don't know them all.
Galahs saw away at the top of the trees.
A sulphur cockatoo trumps them with his gravelly rasp.
Sometimes there are colourful rosellas.
Honey eaters dance in the bottlebrush
and Willie Wagtails skip and swing over the grass.
We have blackbirds and sparrows.
A crow calls, and a rooster.

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A dutch website on Australian birds.
This is a great website with a lot of Australian birds and their sounds.

Birds in backyards also has some audio samples.

Here are some sounds or images from the above sites:

magpie magpie magpie
galah galah
crow new holland honey eater
crested pigeon
willie wagtail willie wagtail
sulphur crested cockatoo cockatoo
ibis little egret rosella

waiting

image by Mostafa Habibi for Magpie Tales

Stasis stretches as far as I can see, perhaps beyond.

Pinned. Embedded. Mind screaming rebellion in

jagged iterative images of sharp red escapism.

Tender dreams compressed to diamond grit

between my teeth, under fingernails.

Blind faith and desperation.

Rain.

silver

Inspired by Dave Bonta's Morning Porch

 rows of cubed earth , unsifted, wet
puddles, ringed with rain, glow.
beans curl through wire, new seedlings stretch
birdsong, without shadows

sweet noise

Inspired by Dave Bonta's Morning Porch

 Still grey and gentle. In spring, birds contest everything; top knot pigeons practice competitive folk dance, galahs celebrate dinner with a shout, honey eaters orbit the bottle brush and wagtails swing over the grasses. A first locust investigates my seedlings. Shy sunlight. A soft shadow falls over my hands; sifting grass roots for a new garden.

christmas

Inspired by Dave Bonta's Morning Porch.

White daisies and oregano are bursting with lush green overconfidence. A carrot waves lacy flowers. Bees search the salvia and lamb's ears. Thyme is still woody, more conservative, anticipating dry Summer heat. Clear, silvery globes like alien plums, contrast the red and rusty leaves of the prunus, for Christmas.

splash

Inspired by Dave Bonta's Morning Porch

Softly raining, grey and warm. A blackbird dances over the close shaved earth, counting worms. Magpies sing waterfall melodies, invisible suits in tall trees.

spiral of life

nautilus shell photography print by Allison Trentelman.