Superb Fairy Wrens
By Marg Sheppard
Published 1 January 2021
A little bird,
Collar of brilliant blue
Head too,
Announcing!
I'm looking for a mate,
Chocolate, coffee and cream coloured
After I find her, one, two or several,
After mating with one, two or more,
Eggs hatched, little ones flying,
I will moult,
I will shed my breeding plumage, all the brilliant blue,
I will assume her colours
No longer seen as a Blue Wren
I am properly a Superb Fairy Wren,
A splendid little bird.
Marg Sheppard wrote this poem while poet laureate for the Blue Wren Group, Glebe Society, as part of Clubs & Societies