Flamingoes
From the air
Uncountable
Myriads of pink dots
On expanse of African blue.
Down and landed
Trudging mucky shoreline.
Symmetry of thousands
Stilt-legged and poised.
Or bursting into
A consensual ascent.
In a nano-second.
Much more of a thrll it seems
Than those trail dwarfing
Trail meandering elephants.
Observed earlier
In the visit.
Pilot Mburu Pesi passing
High-pitched comment.
Arms waving.
Just us…not National Geographic.
Here.
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Written on March 06, 2023
Submitted by dougb.19255 on March 06, 2023
Modified by dougb.19255 on March 09, 2023
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Scheme | ABCBDEFGHIJKLMNOLILPQ |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 434 |
Words | 76 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 21 |
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