About aperture

Living on the island state of Tasmania, Australia. Narrating life through poetry and photography.

Girl in Red

Posted on August 17, 2022 by aperture

Come fly with me
Unchained melody
Can't help falling
Simply irresistible 
She seems to have
An invisible touch
Take my breath away
First day of my life
Crazy in love

Unravelled

Posted on August 16, 2022 by aperture

Let there be no doubt
No matter how well
I weave my way out
The web of thoughts
Weigh me down
In the most pleasant
Hypnotic way
Like a witch stitching
Magical tales
Casting incantations 
I am wrapt completely
A bind of my own making
To pull at a loose end
To test its strength
Would surely lead to
My unraveling 
In the meantime 
Willing wearers
Be blessed adopted kin
Taking tribal yarning
Tales of daring
To edge of reason
Creating folk fables
From salt spray taste
Waiting for your return
Once again

Here comes the sun

Posted on August 16, 2022 by aperture

Little darlin
It's been a long cold 
Lonely winter...

Here comes the sun
It's alright

~John, Paul, George & Ringo

What if

Posted on August 15, 2022 by aperture

We keep turning up
Speaking out
Toning down
Turning round
Taking in
Pulling through
Carrying on
Easing to
Holding over
Standing under
Side by side
Nowhere else
But here
That really matters

Crooks n Nannies

Posted on August 13, 2022 by aperture

Molt

Posted on August 12, 2022 by aperture

Shedding skin
Reluctantly
Knowing it will never
Fit me again
Revealing tender
Glistening within
Looking at a part of me
Not discarded
Treasured outlived
My happy place
My mind returns 
When it protected me
From falls from grace

Protagonist

Posted on August 11, 2022 by aperture

More significant 
Placeholder no need for you
To reciprocate

Tender

Posted on August 10, 2022 by aperture

Tending to
Small hands
Hair flicking wide
Glinting eyes
Blinking love
Up to me
Head hovering 
Under door frame
Burly gentle voice
Giant young hand
Filling holes
In roles of family 

Tending always
My secret garden
Inside
Giant limbs and roots
Of memories
To swing on
In the dark hours
Back and forth
Soothing

Tender to
End of work
Ache between
My bones
Echoes of words 
From a whole world
Of intimate meetings
Human voice evokes
Cure for hurt

Tending all
Cut stems
New roots
Shoots and leaves
Evergreen
Expanding 
Untouched by
Frost or heat
Enclosed glasshouse
Weighted by reality
Preserved by families

Tenderqueer
Sharing spectrum
Kaleidescope
Of fondness
Love me tender
Sensitive receive
Touch of air
Words breathing
Responds anything
Unflinching 
Appealing
Secret smiles
Unspoken words
Tenderly recalling
Time together
Fleeting

Heart song

Posted on August 9, 2022 by aperture

My heart sings out
Every morning 
Trying on
Different melody
Not to drown out
In synchrony
With droning
Whirring life
All around me
Unknown songs
Respond saying
Who is it
You are calling?
Waiting for like echo
Chamber music
Of a heart

On the night of Christmas past

Posted on August 6, 2022 by aperture

Fearful storm of lightning
unaccompanied
by rain or thunder
Flashes
singularly vivid
showing plainly
rugged outline
Wild landscape
from rocky fortress
witnessed
Hot weather parched
herbage of plain
to perfect dryness
A flash
more tremendous
suddenly set it
a blaze
Alarmed
in the tenement
occupied
Shortly relieved
from apprehensions
copious shower
extinguishing the flame

Erasure poem – ‘On Christmas Rock, 1840’ – from JE Calder, 1849, Some account of the country lying between Lake St Clair and Macquarie Harbour, Tasmanian Journal of Natural Science, 3:415-429.