The Blue Fairy Wren is one friend and he wants me me to let you know that colour is coming my friends.
I’m writing and drawing and keeping occupied and the latest is this pic of the things I draw and write.
I’m illustrating Seahorse medicine, one, two and three. They are books written for growing humans and poetry.
The Rise of the Rainbow Lorikeet is brand new and I’m sharing my latest creation here for you.
I’ve finished writing “Seahorse Medicine for future humans” and my next step is to illustrate, edit and format for print but that takes time and money both of which are stretched thin at the moment. However, I do keep on writing and now have enough poetry for a second book of children’s animal poetry (Seahorse Medicine Too Grow) as well as begining on a third collection called “Seahorse Medicine Three: Animals speak through me.”
The following poems will be included in the third book
The Bush turkey is a nurturing man
Hatches the eggs because he can
In the forest
Scratch around
Pile the leaves
Bush turkey mound
Raises the kids
For his wife
Father nurtures
New young life
Feels the temperature
Neck of yellow
Patient waiting
Until chicks cheep, “hello”
“Daddy, daddy we love you”
For all the nurturing
You do”
Bush turkey
With a head of red
Yellow necklace
Powerful legs
Wings of Black
Lustre Shine
You nurture life
You are
Divine
Brother Bush turkey
Came toward me
His three sisters hid away
He’d come over as a decoy
To protect his sisters
What a boy
There was dad
Working hard
Big yellow neck
Scratching hard
With powerful legs
Adjust the temperature
Incubating eggs
Gentle men
Care and protect
Nurture family
And respect life
Just like a Bush turkey
Sensitive and strong
With armour of blue
Left right left right
How do you
Not trip over
With so many legs
Running all together
And not tangle your legs?
Little tiny birds fly towards the light
To escape the darkness and when they’re closed inside
Up towards the heaven where the sun lights up the sky
Little birds swoop and soar towards the light up high
Fairy Wren with a head of blue
You only ever sing words true
Fairy Wren you are correct
Because you know cause and effect
And if you ever tell a lie
A part inside of you will die
Honest little Fairy Wren
I trust you my blue head friend
Fairy wren said, “Please Stop Striving
Against each other, fussing and fighting
We’re all in this together
Let’s work for peace forever
All beings can live in love
Not only the peace dove
It’s time that you decide
To cooperate and stop to strive
Fairy Wren with a head of blue
I’ve taken on your words as true
Ensure my words are true and correct
My cause correct, the right effect
Throat chakra shining brilliant blues
Only singing loving truths
Honest little Fairy Wren
You show the way my truthful friend
The following poetry was written by James Arthur Warren AKA Thundercloud in memory of Daniel Walmsley, victim of prohibition. Early one morning, the day before the Nimbin Mardi Grass cannabiss law reform protestival I walked outside in the dark as the first light was coming. I heard the tawny frogmouth and listened. Then I went inside and wrote down what came to mind. This happened two more times and now I present the words of the wise owl to you.
There is an indigenous belief that tawny frogmouths are messengers of the dead. This spirit bird crowed three times, before the roosters and the kookaburra early in the morning. When the cock crows three times the truth is told.
The Tawny Frogmouth On Prohibition
The tawny frogmouth came to me very late last night
It was very early morning and it spoke very quiet
“I’ve something important to say and this is my position
Humans will not be free until you END PROHIBITION
I’m a tawny frogmouth owl and I see your frustration
With the punitive justice drug war of incarceration
77,000 non criminal users each year locked and jailed
And crime rates have risen the drug war has failed
80 percent of the injustice system is wasted each year
Locking up people for flowers you people are queer
It is obvious to all that prohibition has failed
When you can harm minimise and empty half the jails
Make access safe and clean drugs a right
Save billions of taxpayers dollars overnight
The police could focus on violent crime
Harm minimisation means there’s less people dying
Harm minimisation means that you support the abusers
Educate and rehabilitate the hard drug abusers
Less Overdoses and violent crime gangs will fade away
Grow herbs freely at home, juice cannabis each day
It is obvious to us that you must End Prohibition
Call all politicians today is your mission
And explain all the benefits of ending the war
On drugs, children, the sick, elderly and poor
Write emails, make videos, protest and shout
End prohibition, let the prisoners out
Time to end prohibition and the drug war
On the socially vulnerable, sick, black and poor
It makes me so mad I’m usually so quiet
Said the tawny frogmouth, I want to sleep now it’s light
The Tawny Frogmouth part 2
The tawny frogmouth came to me early in the morning
As the clouds turned red, as the sun was dawning
The wise old owl hooted and the words he spoke were true
“I’m a tawny frogmouth owl, this is what you need to do”
“Write down what I tell you, what I have to say,
It’s time you humans ended all drug prohibition today
Us tawny frogmouth owls are spirits of the dead
Who died from overdoses and systemic violence” he said
“I know you find it weird and difficult to believe
But tawny frogmouth owls are loved ones that you grieve”
“That is why I’m here with my message for you
Ending Prohibition will save loved ones lives it’s true
I’m a tawny frogmouth owl and I really give a hoot
Prohibition harms but harm minimization is beaut”
I stood there quietly listening to what the wise owl said
“End all prohibition and harm minimization instead
When you end all prohibition everything will be alright
Maybe then” the tawny frogmouth said, “I’ll get some sleep at night”
A kookaburra came in the light of early morning
“Listen to the tawny frogmouth, listen to his warning”
“To end all prohibition and empty half the jails
Change your outdated laws because prohibition has failed”
The kookaburra flew off laughing “Prohibition is a failure”
End all prohibition, hurry up Australia”
The Tawny Frogmouth part 3
The tawny frogmouth owl came to me again
Said, “I’ve got a very important message for you my friend
I’ve come to visit you early in the morning
Because you are the one who will sound my warning
We wise owls think you humans are very strange
You seem so conservative and reluctant to embrace change
Your outdated laws are causing much frustration
Time to End Prohibition and change this situation
It isn’t rocket science in fact is plain to see
That your prohibition laws take people’s rights to be
Healthy, free and happy and lock them in a prison
Jails full of poor and black, incarceration rates have risen
Mummy went to jail, Nana went there too
All because of the herbal cannabis they grew
Prohibition is an attack on human rights
It is such an injustice, I have trouble sleeping at night
Humans do you get it? I do I’m an owl
Adopt harm minimization and end prohibition now
Prohibition is social manipulation, slavery in disguise
Prohibition causes violent crime to rise
When prohibition exists people live in fear
Of truth and being caught, imprisoned for a year
Please call your politicians the tawny frogmouth said
When you harm minimise, I can go to bed
Please reconsider your perspective on prohibition of drugs
Free the plants and herbs and undercut the thugs
When you end prohibition there will be a reduction in crime
With harm minimization, there will be less parents crying
When you end prohibition billions of dollars will be saved
Less cops, prisons, lawyers, deaths, more health and happiness every day
I have nearly finished, I’ll try to have a sleep
But I find it very difficult because I often weep
For the victims of the drug war, those overdosed and dead
Brothers, sisters, children’s deaths preventable he said
I’m a tawny frogmouth owl and there is something you must do
Harm minimise, end prohibition now what I’m saying is true
Everyone can see prohibition is a failure
End prohibition now change is good Australia
There is one more thing, you cannot waste your vote
Put a 1 next to the HEMP PARTY in the Senate when you vote.”
#auspol #EndProhibition #MinimiseHarm #Vote1HEMP
2019
This poem and many more are available in my newest book End Prohibition Poetry Nimbin Mardi Grass 2019 by contacting me via email
James Arthur Warren (BSc AES, GCTSL, MTESOL)
AKA Thundercloud Repairian
email:1english1@gmail.com
Writer, poet, performer and finalist in the 2019 Banjo Paterson Australian Poetry Competition
Photo: Tawny Frogmouth in front of Atlantis by James Arthur Warren
https://www.instagram.com/1english1video/
Sitting at home this Sunday morning and my partner says something that sounds like “mermaid juice.” OK, I think to myself, there is something funny about that and I begin to write.
Mermaid Juice
“I think I’d like a mermaid juice.” The great white shark said
So she blended up a mermaid and the mermaid juice was red.
“I was feeling pretty funny because I ate a clown
But mermaid juice has fixed my tummy since I drank it down
Now I’ve had my mermaid juice, I want some toast and cheese
But I can’t leave the water, can you call Uber please?
I’d really like a sandwich on some bread that’s brown
I love Uber eats when they bring food down
Thanks for bringing my food but I’m not a fan of bread
She opened up her mouth, bit off the Uber drivers head
Great White Shark was happy with good food in her tummy
An uber driver and a clown and mermaid juice so yummy
There is one more thing, I want some more to eat
So she called the cops and ate some raw pig meat.
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This morning when I got up there were a lot of birds hanging about the spilt compost bin. There were four bush turkeys, three magpies, a pied currawong and this kookaburra of which I managed to get a few good photos. I like to listen to the messages from the animals and when I am attuned in and calm then the messages flow.
One of the things I have noticed living in the bush and also being an early riser, is that the kookaburras are often the first birds to wake and anounce their presence in the very first light of the day. I was born in the Chinese year of the “cock” and love the birds. I often wondered what the kookaburras were saying each morning but now I think they are just yelling out “Yip yip yip yipeee its awesome to be alive in this awesomely beautiful world and I am awake to celebrate it, yiiiiippppppeeeeeeee”
This morning’s message comes from Big Kev the Kookaburra
Big Kev the Kookaburra had a lot of need
Big Kev the Kookaburra had a lot of greed
Big Kev the Kookaburra was always swooping down
Picking snakes and lizards up sunning on the ground
Kev Kookaburra wasn’t always a big fella
It started when magpie called him Yella
Kev Kookaburra Yelled “I’m not afraid”
The magpie had meant the noise he made
Kev Kookaburra yelled’ “I’ve got what it takes
I eat lizards and I eat snakes
I’m not scared and I won’t die
I eat snakes, I’m one tough guy.
Kev Kookaburra gave a loud shout
Swooped down and ate a water dragon laying about
Swallowed it into his tummy
Said to the magpie, “that was yummy
I’m going looking for more to eat
There’s plenty of lizards and snakes to eat
He flew above the dusty track
Snakes sunning themselves in the outback
Kev Kookaburra found so much feed
He couldn’t control his pride and greed
When Kev Kookaburra came back
His stubbies wouldn’t cover his bum crack
Kev was heavy and weighed down
His belly stopped him flying around
He sat around, could fly no more
Watched TV sitting on the floor
“I showed you magpie, I’m not afraid
See the empire I have made
There’s so much more than I need
Could not fulfil my pride and greed
Got so much stuff in my life
I can’t fly now I’ve lost my wife”
Kev Kookaburra was now a real heav
The magpie renamed him Big Kev
Big Kev the Kookaburra the magpie said
You can’t fly now you will be dead
If one of those snakes comes along
You’ll never sing your happy song
Big Kev Kookaburra will be snake food now
Big Kev can’t get off the ground
Big Kev the Kookaburra said, “I don’t want to die”
I really enjoyed to swoop and fly
I want to be like I was before
Not big and fat sitting on the floor
Big Kev yelled, “I’ve had enough”
Pride and greed are not that tough
“I’ve seen the error of my way”
Only eat what I need to fly each day
He gave up beer and cream cakes
Now only eats occasional snakes
He’s fit and healthy now you see
Wakes up with the sun and sits in a tree
Each morning Kev gives a great big shout
“Eat well Is what life is all about”
He laughs about the error of his ways
How he’s happy and healthy always these days
Big Kev Kookaburra flies once more
Swoops and flies and he can soar
Big Kev the Kookaburra laughs about it now
How once he was fat like a cow
But now he’s free to fly and soar
Big Kev the Kookaburra is a fit fella sure.
