Friday, February 25, 2022

A Home For Daphne 2 - Same Pinna Comments

Rating: 4.7

Tears rolling off his eyes, sat Apollo
On the long green pinnate palm leaf
Looking at the empty pinna on which hung
His nest and Daphne's, until a few days ago.
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Unnikrishnan Sivasankara Menon
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Bri Edwards 30 October 2022

If I had a copy (in English) of the 'autobiography of the famous ornithologist Padmabhushan Dr Salim Ali', I'd read it. bri edwards, Birdman of Pickens, SC. ;))

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Should read. And his books on "Ornithology". Masterpieces, if you consider the time it was ever written.

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"Birdman'? Hope you watch only English Birds?

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Bri Edwards 30 October 2022

A reminder/fact for readers: there are several MORE poems to this series A Home For Daphne, Daphne being a disagreeable/short-sighted female (bird) . bri : ))))

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Yeah! Hence, the phrase ‘Birdbrain'….

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Bri Edwards 30 October 2022

I laughed upon reading 'Bri' in the poem and AGAIN upon reading the Poet's Notes. I gave it 4 stars, but it may deserve 5, especially due to the mention of my name, and my terrific advice for Aps.

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I could not think of another name for ‘the wise counsel' and the well-meaning friend. Rightly thought you would like it. And more happy that you didn't claim a royalty for using your name!

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Unnikrishnan E S 26 February 2022

Pinna 4. And a coconut leaf is three to four feet broad and ten to fourteen feet long.

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Unnikrishnan E S 26 February 2022

Pinna 3. Hundreds of such pinnae attached to either side of a stout, rigid, strong shaft, forming a flat structure is a coconut leaf. A Pinna of a coconut leaf could be one and a half inches to two inches broad and two feet to three feet long.

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Unnikrishnan E S 26 February 2022

Pinna 2. Each pinna has a strong hard rigid thin central shaft (which we use to make brooms) , with the long green fibrous leafy part attached to either side.

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Unnikrishnan E S 26 February 2022

Pinna: Pinna is the long fibrous leaflet of a large coconut leaf. Each Pinna has a thin rigid hard long

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Unnikrishnan E S 26 February 2022

‘The Fall Of A Sparrow' is the autobiography of the famous ornithologist Padmabhushan Dr Salim Ali. I have drawn upon many information on the behaviour of birds, he has described in it.

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Unnikrishnan Sivasankara Menon

Unnikrishnan Sivasankara Menon

PUTHENCHIRA, KERALA, INDIA
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