My heart soars in flight A hawk hovers high in the dying light Deadly she plummets Closing a curtain of sky behind her The sun bows low I turn for home My dog pants happily shuffling along Unaware of the sunset Or perhaps Without words to describe it he simply enjoys the sound of insects […]
Whenever life leans in Crushing Turmoil Strain Remember The dignity of the tall gum tree The ageless serenity of the gorge Cliffs of towering power The sheer beauty inherent in nature Enfolded in a flower Remember the songs of birds The sigh of wind Trees sifting energy Releasing it in leaves that fall to the […]
Crows glossy and clean in their blue black sheen Immaculate Inaccurate Given they have likely just bounced out of a carcass by the roadside An eyeball plucked effortlessly From a dead hares hairy face Which now stares sightlessly into broad blue outer space Yet they look so damn squeaky clean – those dapper shiny crows […]
Imagine if we could only recognise a person by the clothes that they most recently wore Tomorrow a green shirt confuses a different hairstyle obscuring the countenance we once thought we knew appearance to be the only indicator of another’s identity how funny how stupid how small to judge another on anything at all other […]
We are sandcastles Daily we build by night we are gone released into the potential of whatever tomorrows tidings bring. Some run screaming from that tide Clinging preciously to the lines that define Who they are What they think Others collapse gratefully knowing we are not the walls and turrets that a child builds with […]
Worry is a walk through the dry husks of overblown spring flowers Gathering burrs Gathering burrs I look down My socks are full Bristling with prickles that once were pretty Now they cling Biting my ankles And it is easy to think the burrs are the problem And not the surface, the sock the thinking […]
And it’s raining out of nowhere Like the sky has changed moods And the mist in the paddocks Is blocking the view of the cold blue hills in the distance The iron on the roof is prickling in response But I’m not really listening though my nerves twitch along with the musical notes that pour […]
I have a hatstand full of hats And yet usually I’m wearing a bright orange freebie Someone gave to me From OCG As a poet I love a metaphor So this has me thinking Perhaps the hat that suits me most Is the one that chooses me And maybe I should stop overthinking this thing […]
And it occurred to me That these are the days Each 24 hours long (As decided by some surmising doing being some thousand years ago) These are the days Through which we rush headlong Like children hounded by bells School is out It is in Lessons in session Heads down we forge ahead Fall behind […]
Reflection is useless when looking in a stone the surface unyielding to any sort of enquiry And yet, we would be more intelligent to ask the stone the pebble who am I? then to listen to the rabble that surrounds us in the midst of daily life The routine Same people same thoughts same places […]
