Sound bites

Peering through the gap in the fence
Seeing glimpses of movements
Shifting my weight on my haunches
Ears picking out prominent sounds
Out of the loudness of wind, grasses, cicadas
Talking fluently in the language I feel
Most comfortable in my skin
Waiting for an eye to appear, an ear to receive
Only darting birds believe
What nature knows to be true
Our senses of self flow unkept by the tide gate
Words carried away with wings on the breeze
Warm air rises to meet
All the waves from all the ones
Who agree

Love like

Haymaking
Sunshine and rain
Brave one who
Hops onboard
Riding forward
While others gather
Receiving stores
Bailing and loading
Sundried piled high
Wheat and straw
For each living thing
In community
Out of rain
Hoping greenness
Had gone away
Save spontaneous
Combustion

Meanwhile few
Content with
Love's gleanings
Slim pickings
On the fringe
Taking only
What they need
To feed or bake
Wheaten loaf
For family roast
Horse or goat
Stave off hunger
Together
For one more day
The Gleaners by Jean-Francois Millet

Love like

A manicure
Constantly tending
Ever growing
Uncomfortable process
Paring and smoothing
Rough edges
Common trait of humanity
Yet individual as
A fingerprint
Love an identity
Caring regularly
Outward sign of
Healthy nurture
Nourishment
Beautiful accessory
To extend
To hold
In another's
Hand

Love is all you need

In the hey daze they believed
Love is all you need
Offspring of starched
Apron generation
A leaf out of a book
Cruel to be kind
Post migration
Preceded by a silent
- Exclamation -

All we see is HMV
Flapper dress hair
Glitz and flare
Through movies eyes
We hypnotize
My conflagration
Of X, Y's, Z's and I
Digital pinnacle to climb
Steadily insisting
We are living in
Unprecented times
This is my generation

Seeking inspiration
With glowing eyes
Yet the sweetest find
Is in your smile
Portrait by Lily Allport ~ Artists of Tasmania.

Sister smiles

Failsafe friend days
Filled with laughter
Topdown wind in hair ways
Hope your headscarf stays

The biggest smiles
Reserved for little
Sister dearest
Keepsafe creative memory

Easy hair down
Help tailor made
In a bind
Pave a way

Waves over statelines
Saving grace
Voice a soothing space
For centuries

Women on the verge
Of finding one another
Peace never needing
A reason to love
Peppermint Bay, Woodbridge Tasmania

Pleiades

Dancers in dusky streetlight
Seven forms converge
Reflecting blue
Evading the darkness

Superceded by
Spectacular collisions
Supernova sky

In the millions
Years of stillness
Like one looked
In the mirror

Saw the other
Longing to look within
Each other
Forever

Live like
No tomorrow
Casting stars
Into orbit
For a hundred thousand
Tomorrows

Light years end
Replaced by dark nebula
Crash course time and again
Pressing upon the moment
Tales trail behind

A particle of dust
Floats by
Miniature universe
Beyond our eyes

Little did she know

The tragedy of poetry
Is how Atwood sees
As the words are written
Inspired event complete

Like an epitaph
To memory in bold
Detail delightful sighting
Though future is untold

No assurance can be given
By simply putting down
Ink to paper, finger tap
All prophecy unfounded

Into future like Le Guin
A new world expounded
If all society's whisper
In amplified stereo sound

A foot tapping, toe curling
Secret I keep
That all stories begin and end
With us somewhere in between
Eucalyptus globulus, Tasmanian blue gum

Heavy

Heavy on my mind
Light in my step
Taking my time
Giving me power

Under my skin
Deep in the heart
Over everything
Where do I start?

Love is burnt toast
Running late
Sleeping in
Talking straight

Smiling inappropriate
Moments on repeat
Fear of being alone
Knowing never will be

Because you're always
Here beside me

Poignant parting

We each have new beginnings
New seasons to
Leap and lie
Bow, lament
Rise and start again

Consider the sunbleached
Bronzed, beautiful
Beckoning blue
Sea and sky

Like a lover's high
Adrenalin
Riding waves
Salt water bouyancy

Yet one day
White caps on the bay
Forcing its way
On the rocks

All endings unpleasant
Never a parting
Without pain
Is that the reason, though

To never start again?
When we can be held
Through that passage
Of time and inspire

Years attended by
Watched over with
The one who would never miss
Being in the moment
With you

Flow

To have words trampled
Beneath the cart wheels
On the streets
of old St Petersburg
Crimes a mystery
Hung backlit
By brazen streetlight
Broken, worn, blue
Time it takes
To decide ~ are they done?
Will they heal?
Slowly drip feeding
Stew of broth
Building marrow
Until the shine
In the eyes returns
Upon hearing
A chorus
Seeing a glorious
Image of affection
At mere mention
A novel moment
Produces a turrent
Cascading into
Rivers winding
Bringing life
Bearing it to sea
Setting free