At twilight this evening, a lone peewee settled on the fence line, unexpected company above a paddock split open by summer. The moment felt like a small report from the dry season — so I let the bird speak for itself.
Peewee on the Fence Wire
Here on a weathered fence wire,
in my honorary black-and-white attire,
I am a peewee of a scarecrow
monitoring this broad and dry meadow.
The long, hot summer has created havoc
and left the parched paddock
covered in a maze of deep, dark cracks,
inscribed by the droughts, dusty, black chalk;
and the dirty chasms are as wide as my back.
Their song carries softly across the dry ground — a fitting echo for this moment.
Ivor Steven © February 2026
Ivor.Plumber/Poet 
Excellent account of the parched land in the Aussie sun, courtesy of a birds eye point of view. 🥰📝🐦⬛🌏☀️♬😍
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Yes, secretly I am a disguised as a poet, but I don’t know how to fly “yet” !!! 🌞😀📖🦅🦉
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Flying, yes, in my mind I am flying … 🥰🦉
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A lovely poem, Ivor. Did you not have a lot of rain earlier in the summer?
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It was a cool early summer but no rain, Robbie 🌏🌞
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Do you have winter rain or is it a drought? I know some parts of Oz had heavy rain.
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This makes me think the birds might be growing hungry in so much dry weather.
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Yes, the birds need the rain to 🦉🥰
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oh, no, tiny scarecrow, I hope you are finding enough food
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The fields are bare my friend, just as well I can fly around to scavenge some feed
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If it were within my power, I would happily send you some of our rain. I hope the rain arrives soon. 🙂
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Thank you, Sue … Australia is such a vast continent, up north in the tropics it’s very wet , but way down here in the south it’s been very dry, especially in or western part of Victoria 🥰🌞
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Aw, Little Peewee. 😦 Yes, I think of you and all of the birds and animals when it is so hot and so dry. I pray you can always find water and food.
Tell Ivor that is this a powerful and important trio of photos, poem, and music. We are praying for you all to get rain! 🌧️
(((HUGS))) 🤍🐦⬛ ༄☼༄🪽🤍
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Australia is such a vast continent, up north in the tropics it’s been very, but down here in western Victoria it’s been very dry, but just as well I can fly around to find some food and water … 🎶🥰
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Well evoked in poem and good photos
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In this case, the photos evoked the poem, Derrick
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Lovely poem Ivor. The ground is very dry
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Yes, it’s very close to becoming a drought situation, Sadje
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That’s sad my friend.
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Excellent poem Ivor! Love that it is from the birds point of view! 🙌🙌🤗🤗
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Thank you, and I do love to write on their behalf, Carol 📖🥰🌏
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