Red-capped Plover (Charadrius ruficapillus), Orford, Tasmania: photo by Noodle snacks, 2010
I wouldn't mind being born again as a Red-capped Plover
If I were to be born again as a Fan-tailed Cuckoo
or a Bassian Thrush
a Dusky Woodswallow
a Little Penguin
a Pink Robin
or a Superb Fairywren
I'd be on top of the world
If I were to be born again as a Bennett's Wallaby
I'd be over the moon
If I were to be born again as a Moon Jelly
a Bubble-tipped Anemone
a Venus Flytrap Anemone
or a Zebra-striped Gorgonian Wrapper
life would begin again in a new and interesting way
for I would be beautiful
This old body's is on its last legs
anyway
If it could be born again
as a Red and White Christmas Tree Worm
it would wish you a happy Christmas and be gone
into its feathery Christmas wreath in the deeps
a Little Penguin
a Pink Robin
or a Superb Fairywren
I'd be on top of the world
If I were to be born again as a Bennett's Wallaby
I'd be over the moon
If I were to be born again as a Moon Jelly
a Bubble-tipped Anemone
a Venus Flytrap Anemone
or a Zebra-striped Gorgonian Wrapper
life would begin again in a new and interesting way
for I would be beautiful
This old body's is on its last legs
anyway
If it could be born again
as a Red and White Christmas Tree Worm
it would wish you a happy Christmas and be gone
into its feathery Christmas wreath in the deeps
Fan-tailed Cuckoo (Ccomantis flabelliformis), Bruny Island, Tasmania: photo by Noodle snacks, 2010
Bassian Thrush (Zoothera lunulata), Bruny Island, Tasmania : photo by Noodle snacks, 2010
A Dusky Woodswallow (Artamus cyanopterus) parent feeding chicks in a nest at Mortimer Bay, Tasmania : photo by Noodle snacks, 2010
Little Penguin (Eudyptula minor) family exiting burrow, Bruny Island, Tasmania : photo by Noodle snacks, 2010
Pink Robin (Petroica rodogaster), Mount Field National Park, Tasmania : photo by Noodle snacks, 2010
Superb Fairywren (Malurus cyaneus), Male, Peter Murrell Reserve, Tasmania : photo by Noodle snacks, 2010
Bennett's Wallaby (Maacropus rufogriseus rufogriseus), Bruny Island, Tasmania: photo by Noodle snacks, 2010I
Adult Moon Jelly (Aurelia aurita), Monterey Bay Aquarium : photo by Dante Alighieri, 2006
Bubble-Tip Anemone (Entacmaea quadricolor): photo by Nick Hobgood, 2006
Venus Flytrap Anemone (Actinoscyphia aurelia), Gulf of Mexico : photo by Aquapix and Expedition to the Deep Slope, 2007 (NOAA)
Zebra-striped Gorgonian Wrapper (Nemanthus annamensis), a type of colonial anemone : photo by Nick Hobgood, 2005
Red and white Christmas Tree Worm (Spirobranchus giganteus) photo by Nick Hobgood, 2005
4 comments:
Beautiful!
Thanks Nin, sweet of you to come to my little Born-Again Christmas Party.
Never has one wished more fiercely
To be
A Red and White
Christmas Tree
Worm
In the stocking of the universe
Than this year!
after all the icy fogs of the 19th--feathered worms & brilliant jellyfish, all cool! You're sending much warmth, Tom. Best to you both. --M & B
A. says, "Warming the cockles of my heart... but I don't even know what a cockle is -- do you?"
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