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Australian Birds: Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo

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The trees in our backyard are very popular with the local birdlife - for which I'm very grateful, although I didn't expect to see these big fellows just outside my backdoor. And I guess they didn't expect to see me, either. But this one didn't let the camera clicking interrupt his dinner. Although, he did keep a good eye on me. Probably, thinking bad cocky thoughts about paparazzi spoiling lunch.

The Cinquain Challenge: Form 4—The Mirror Cinquain

This week, we’re looking at a fourth type of cinquain. Again, it uses either a Crapsey Form 1 or a Crapsey Form 2 as a base. For those of you who are new to this series, Adelaide Crapsey was an American poet who was inspired by the rules of Japanese poetry to create her own poetical form, the cinquain. A cinquain is a five-line poem that has a set number of syllables (or word types) per line. Sometimes the title of a cinquain acts as a sixth line. The fourth type of cinquain we’ll look at is called a Mirror Cinquain. This form consists of two five-line verses—a Crapsey Form 1 or 2 cinquain, and a Reverse Cinquain based on the form used in the first verse. Here’s an example, inspired by the day outside my window: Sunlight Reflected on leaves From a sky grey with cloud Rain threatens, wind blows, the sun shines Autumn Some leaves Have turned early Red and yellow highlights Amidst a stormy sea of green Autumn And here’s another one. St

Progress Report: Week 1, April 2014

Another busy week, with four assessment items to be completed over four days—not a lot of writing was completed. Next week, we have a mid-term break, but I have some things I need to catch up on, so there may not be much writing done then, either. We'll see. I can only do my best. Overview New words produced: 2,563 Old words revised: 0 Works completed: 0 Works revised: 0 Covers created: 0 Works published: 0 Works submitted: 0 Competitions Entered: 0 Tier 1 Tasks Annual 13: Added 453 words Annual 14: Added 1,405 words Tier 4 Tasks YANovel18A— added 585 words Publishing Tasks: Created 1 blog post for C.M. Simpson blog New Arrivals The following ideas arrived this week: YANovel18A: about a girl trying to protect her little brother and find him a place of safety; YANovel18B: about a girl searching for her family; Poem337—Death of Dreaming : about life’s disappointments; Poem338—Colour our World : about colours and their