To bear Not to blame Open the gates Running away Pointing star Toward the void Seemingly endless Space between us In the silence Flag flying Falls and furls To the ground Fences down She crosses over Settlers land Like she always did On Bruny Island Feet tread lightly Lately leaders Learn to follow Across fallow fields On her heels Cotton wool covering Envelopes the sky Carpeted canopy Of green lay over Caress of waves lap At the edges This is her land Forever
Solid star hovering over Posing in greyness Striking through deliberate Claiming the pinnacle Peak most tender point Baring nerve endings Of the mountain Changeable in season Day and hour Unpredictable Never tire of watching Waiting to draw curtain From mist and storm Evaporating One day lost from Following twisting paths Do we never leave Sea level again? How to find you now Not knowing the place Like the back of my hand Hiding in the crevices Waiting for help at hand Sea legs cave under me Used to bouyancy Not the heavy hand Of altitude Beckoning voice Reckons waypoints Would never be reached To begin with
Apathy betrays me on regular bases So long steaming upriver Now tidal flow pushes back Downstream to ocean Where were we going Into heart of darkness? Comrades join in singing Whistling through evergreen Sleepy villages lie Smoking signals Green leaf envy Flying high the sos Invisible by night Jungle hearth glows bright Still no competing With our cumulative Night lights No spreading of anything When living beyond The fringe of existence Life abounds on the edges A catalyst for hiding minds To grow and light fires Just to stay alive This is the way to meditate With a flicker in the eye
No room at the inn For fair weather friend It is rarely so fair So close to Antarctic Even in Bermuda Smooth sailing unlikely When a meteor Millions of years ago Can still mess with Direction finding Compass swirling While land locked ones Hang around in bars Drinking Sunrises By the glass Why is the needle Always pointing South Where the shadows are cast By the winter sun? To those in motherland We are indeed upside down
Looking up to you Taking time to realise We all revolve Around one another All drawing each other Inwards and collisions Unavoidable
It took a while Of sitting in The darkness Taking time to realise How bright you are How steady and constant While eyes are distracted By satellites And falling stars
Mesmerising centuries Defying human theories The seat of source Of all things Green on earth
Stardust fingers Billions of years wide Hold us all our lives