I like to swim at dawn When no one else is on the beach And few are in the water Usually just a couple of surfers Way out the back – bobbing on their boards and paying homage to the rising sun As a swimmer It breaks every rule in the safety book Don’t do […]
A little bite of regret Not now But in a minute Really shouldn’t have eaten that Now I’ve gone and done it Will have to start the diet again Tomorrow…
She didn’t want three wishes Or a fairy Or a trip to Neverland She didn’t want a Knight in Shining Armour Or any other man She didn’t need all that Stuff She just wanted to sit and watch the day pass from dawn to dusk with absolutely no fuss Perhaps a few in a row […]
My eyes are closed Up the hill over the dunes The man in the caravan park is blowing leaves 🍃 I tuned into him ten minutes ago Though I’ve got him on the down low To my right two boys are shrieking and poking a helpless jelly fish Marooned by the tide I want to […]
A giggling bundle lifted high Her laughter rings out It catches my eye Their lost in a world Made up of of each other A little child in love With the love of his Mother
I woke up thinking about Wifi this morning. It was one of those half asleep half awake moments when the brain connects several dots at once and hands your subconscious a download of the issue. It doesn’t always make sense but it usually points the way towards something that possibly will – with a little […]
Why do we wait for falling stars On which to place our dreams When morning skies are a glimmer With shining tails of travelling streams We can choose to wait and study Night skies till we are dead Or wake and get up early And look up then instead For once the dream of flight […]
And the she wolf howls and howls and howls and the female the female feels it too under her skin through her bones the tremors begin A vibration that runs straight and true straight and true and through her bones that are howling this is so unfair! yet on the surface a smile breaks nicely […]
I tore my favourite shirt It taught me to let go I broke my treasured jug It taught me to let go I pleaded with my drunken son at 1am in the morning to come home come home come home He said no he was fine and walked away It taught me to […]
Shearing time – one of the most exciting times of year in the rural calendar. At least it was for me growing up on a sheep station. I still get excited about shearing because it was such a huge event in my childhood. It was when strangers arrived at our property and stayed in the […]
