What can compare to a singing bird as it perches on a branch against the sky .
With the tropical sun highlighting iridescent feathers that catches the eye .
Birds of bright plumage in shades of blue and various hue stick together outback .
They have to wing it and sing it out naturally and what a perfectly pitched act .
No birdcage can hold a budgies song or trap its natural flair of singing there .
What bar frame could ever keep a colourful structure of melody in the air .
There is an ever present friend lending its freedom and a sky that holds the sun .
When the time is right off they go to adorn the trade winds -
steel cages have they none .

By Paul McCann