The Latest Parrot Poetry

Pretty Bird

by Shadow

Birds may be blue, or black, or red.

These are colors that I’ve seen.

But the prettiest bird in all the world

Is the bird with feathers green.

Little birds sitting in a row

Make a lovely scene.

But the loveliest bird in all the world

Is the bird with feathers green.

A crested bird proud on a branch

May be beautiful as a queen.

But the beautifulest bird in all the world

Is the bird with feathers green.

A Fun Place to Play

You know what one of my favorite places to play is? A desk drawer. My person has a desk drawer that's full of the most wonderful toys -- pencils, paper clips, notebooks, and lots of other stuff, too. I love picking up the paper clips and tossing them around. I try to see how many I can get to land outside the drawer and fall on the floor. That's lots of fun. And when I'm done with that, I like to pounce on the measuring tape and pick it up and shake it around. Then I look for something nice to chew like a pencil or a notebook cover. I have to warn you, though, if your person sees you throwing paper clips on the floor or chewing the cover of her favorite notebook, she'll probably put you back in your cage and slam the drawer shut and then sulk around for a while. I speak from experience.

Fright Flight

OMG. You won't believe what I saw the other day. My heart is pounding just thinking about it. I was hanging out peacefully in the kitchen, sitting on my person's shoulder, when all of a sudden I saw it: A huge hawk, right in our driveway! Of course I took off right away, flying as fast as I could in the other direction. I didn't stop to look where I was going, I just wanted to get away as fast as I could when, suddenly, bam! I slammed into the picture window and dropped to the floor. Ooooooooh, that hurt. That's an experience I don't certainly don't want to have again. My person rushed over and picked me up. I was so shaken I had to spend the rest of the afternoon hiding in my person's shirt. Of course, while I was flying away, my person just stood there like a big doofus. I hope she realizes how lucky she is that the hawk didn't eat her up. Anyway, we are both safe and sound now, but I will be keeping an extra careful watch out for hawks from now on.

Applesauce!

Here I am eating some delicious applesauce that my person made. Yum!  It feels so smooth and sweet on my beak. I think homemade applesauce is my very favorite treat, next to homegrown sunflower seeds, of course. September is such a great time of year because that's when all these tasty treats come out of the garden.What about you? What treats do you like to eat at this time of year?

Winter Feast

Look what I get to eat this winter! My person grows these sunflowers in her garden, then she dries them and lets me eat the seeds all winter. I get to pick the seeds right out of the flower head. Yum! There's nothing I like better than sunflower seeds.

Exercise

Don't you just love exercise? I exercise frequently with my person. My favorite way to do it is with an exercise machine. I sit on my person's shoulder while she uses the machine. The best part is all the squeaks and groans the machine makes. I just love listening to them. My person usually stops exercising after a while, but I could go on and on forever. It's so much fun. The other way I like to exercise is by taking a walk. I ride in my carrier while my person does the walking. I get to listen to all the wonderful outside sounds: birds, insects, rushing water, rustling leaves. It's all so wonderful. The only part I don't like is when a scary car rushes by or when a dog barks at us. But mostly walking is fun. Exercise is just about my favorite part of the day. What about you? Do you like to exercise?

Back from Vacation

So here's another thing I don't get -- vacations. I just returned from one and I'm left feeling: "Huh?" Not that I had a bad time or anything. My person dropped me off at Trouble's house, where I sat around in my cage for a week wondering why I was there. Trouble's person fed me melons and grapes (which, by the way, my own person almost NEVER feeds me at home), so that part was good. But the rest was rather ho hum. I just stayed in my cage and chewed and squawked and did all the usual things. So, aside from those melons and grapes, I'm wondering why people think vacations are such a big deal. They're not much different from staying home. I don't know where my person was all week. I'm guessing at someone else's house eating melons and grapes.