Yours is the only
Sacred world I know
Minutiae of delights
Dripped from branches
Conjures fantasies
In foreign lands
Show me the way in
Ritual initiations
I wait, dew gathering
Under my skin

Yours is the only
Sacred world I know
Minutiae of delights
Dripped from branches
Conjures fantasies
In foreign lands
Show me the way in
Ritual initiations
I wait, dew gathering
Under my skin

I suspect
Stream of emotion
Ebb and flow
Words wired
Tied to rise
Fall of pride
Tender moonlight

Twice in one year
I have been spurned
By one I dedicated
All future selves to
I smelled the edge
Stepped backwards
Felt the rush of
Bone breaking waves
Wind on my face
Venture out beyond
Foaming titillating
Swell tickling sand
I always come back
Knowing as deep
As orange roughy sea
Future love waits
For me

Necessarily, roof fell in
Doors broken down
Used as rustic tables
In the palace of the mind
What once segregated
Now feeds community
In stark inhospitable
Places fringe dwellers
I framed you differently
Than you allowed
Reckoned upon forever
Happiness elusive
Go about our business
Making homecooked life
Ones you might like
Hope someone looks after you
If I can’t hold you
In my arms

Hills are for heartbreaks
Rivers for romance
Beaches bond friendships
Highways hone minds
Live long enough
To go round them all
Thrice
Take passing travellers
Along for the ride
Constant companion
Ones love life lost
Joy the eyes give
Well worth the cost

Take my portrait
Hold it with your eyes
Just once admit
That we loved and lost
With pride

Together algae and fungi
Make something new
I hope to grow on you





Wondrous no matter
The weather
My affect seems to
Reflect on your face
So if I can illuminate
The sky with wonder
I enjoy over again
The way you radiate
As if the glow comes
From us both
Well may all harbour
Ill feeling
As constant as
Heavenly bodies orbit
As rolling swell lifts
Carries me toward
My destination
Quaint boat shed
Only one fish
To be seen
Grasses weeds sponges
Sand wrinkles between
Two laps of this ocean
Though not counting
No walls to bounce off
Just freedom
So it is with
Harbouring love
Quietly, waves surge
Crash on shores
Squeal of delight
Taken by surprise
Gentle forces
Holding me, floating

A vast chasm lies
Beneath the Tasman Sea
Five thousand more
Yards deep
So too, the lover
Defender of truth
Bathe unseasonally
Still waters
While gargantuan
Creatures long to graze
Upon tawny flesh
Deliciously
So well, dream of all
Paradisic lands end
Where lone journey
Supposed meets our need
When really -
Chill of waves barely
Metered by sun's rays
So is love's gaze
Upon bedrock of reason
