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Diane Hine (25 July 1956)
Poems by Diane Hine : 191 / 190
Bird Song
Freshly hatched from seminary,
young unchary missionary,
picked New Guinea estuary,
for his work revisionary.
In the jungle aviary,
filamentary and airy,
soft, maybe imaginary,
boom......boom.......boom.
Straying from processionary,
for a matter urinary,
met a revolutionary,
mercenary cassowary.
Indiscretionary tarry
and insalutary parry,
gutted him in sanguinary
doom.....doom........doom.
' Mid the garlands, funerary,
honorary luminary,
warns in grim obituary-
'Be ablutionary wary'.
From a distant sanctuary,
baritone reactionary,
echoes faintly, fragmentary,
boom.......boom.......boom.
Diane Hine
Submitted: Friday, May 25, 2012
Edited: Friday, May 25, 2012
Poems by Diane Hine : 191 / 190
Poet's Notes about The Poem
The cassowary 'boom' is the lowest known bird call.
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Complicated tale, but all makes sense in the re-reading. Well-done! -c
Bird song with a twist with a boom boom that lost me a little...regards
I think the 'booms' were guns and the 'doom' WAS doom..anyway, there is so much incredible talent in this poem I didn't really care if it was just poetic license or if it really meant something definite!
A timely and cautionary poem of booming clarity to stay on the path and use the facilities provided. :)
Beware the boom! Excellent work!
Nature calls, don't listen.
I am always impressed by the rhythm
and beat of your poems, and they all
tell a story in a unique estuary way.
Quite a piece of poetry, has rhythmic composition!
What a tongue twister - I love birds, but I`m not sure I follow this one. The boom boom boom reminds me of the Bittern, which we do see (rarely) in the UK, he inhabits reed beds.
haunting, eye opening!