09-28-2006, 05:00 PM
Marvelous memories of our fine feathered friends, folks!
Cool to hear you share.
Me? I've always kinda got a kick out of the Kolea (Pacific Golden Plover):
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Kolea lay claim to your lawn
Tundra-chicks fledge to glacier-melt melodies,
caribou rock-yodel, goldpanning jazz.
Jittery parents catch tradewinds in August,
abandoning keiki to stave off starvation.
Genetic legends shiver and grow.
Equinox signals start of first-journey.
Three thousand miles of three-mile-high star-steering.
Magnetic messages swirl in skulls.
Three thousand miles of wave-chasing current-watch.
Searching for something: something like this.
Swaying on stilts in southern sea salt-shower,
beaks piercing breeze as breakfast creeps by.
Autumn attire: Flightfrazzle rufflemess.
Neck-'n-neck nomads relax and regroup.
Just as the paddlers of old Hawa'iki
scanned sky for secrets, read red-cloud warnings;
just as their counterparts sailed through thunderstorms,
Kolea navigate, find a new home.
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http://www.hanahou.com/pages/Magazine.asp?Action=DrawArticle&ArticleID=120&MagazineID=6
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Edited by - malolo on 09/28/2006 21:20:39
Cool to hear you share.
Me? I've always kinda got a kick out of the Kolea (Pacific Golden Plover):
.
Kolea lay claim to your lawn
Tundra-chicks fledge to glacier-melt melodies,
caribou rock-yodel, goldpanning jazz.
Jittery parents catch tradewinds in August,
abandoning keiki to stave off starvation.
Genetic legends shiver and grow.
Equinox signals start of first-journey.
Three thousand miles of three-mile-high star-steering.
Magnetic messages swirl in skulls.
Three thousand miles of wave-chasing current-watch.
Searching for something: something like this.
Swaying on stilts in southern sea salt-shower,
beaks piercing breeze as breakfast creeps by.
Autumn attire: Flightfrazzle rufflemess.
Neck-'n-neck nomads relax and regroup.
Just as the paddlers of old Hawa'iki
scanned sky for secrets, read red-cloud warnings;
just as their counterparts sailed through thunderstorms,
Kolea navigate, find a new home.
~~~~~~~
http://www.hanahou.com/pages/Magazine.asp?Action=DrawArticle&ArticleID=120&MagazineID=6
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Edited by - malolo on 09/28/2006 21:20:39