I Wake

I wake 

to the flickering screen’s images 

of desperation and remorse,

the bleak recounting of misdeeds,

lies, greed, corruption,

scenes of anger, partisan politics, accusation,

analysis, implication, expectation, speculation,

but in the blue-sky day outside

the gum trees are in nectar-filled

explosion of blossom 

and the air is filled with flocks 

of beautiful rainbow lorikeets

descending to joyously feast

with their excited chatter

and even the grey friar birds,

dipping their dark heads 

to fill their curved beaks,

sing their strange chokk-chokk-four-o-clock 

in unrestrained, joyous, raucous celebration.

First published in One Sentence Poems