Count the stars of heaven

Our stories are more than the sand on the shore

Shed my skin

Posted on February 18, 2024 by aperture

Hope dives in
Suns rays kiss
Tired cheeks 
Like a mother
Rise new birth

Once

Posted on February 16, 2024 by aperture

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

Lichen you

Posted on February 14, 2024 by aperture

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

Talk to me

Posted on February 9, 2024 by aperture

I want to dive into your ocean..

Talk to me like lovers do
Eurythmics – Here comes the rain again

A Spy in the House of Love

Posted on February 7, 2024 by aperture

Sunset over kunanyi

She was grateful that hypnotised by the sun’s reassuring splendour and the sea’s incurable restlessness, her own nerves did not recoil and spring within her to destroy this moment of repose.
Book by Anais Nin

Mirror

Posted on February 4, 2024 by aperture

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

Harbouring

Posted on February 4, 2024 by aperture

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

*Blackman’s Bay Beach lutruwita / Tasmania*

Dreamers beware

Posted on February 1, 2024 by aperture

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

Time

Posted on February 1, 2024 by aperture

Time has a way
Of breaking down
All the hard places
Inside

Radiate

Posted on January 29, 2024 by aperture

By the warm glow of sunrise
Night tremors of the mind
Dissolve and escape
As tea tree scent
On whirling breeze
Alluring mini beasts
Plump feathered friends
Dainty adept feet
To alight on her leaves
Bask in the brightness
Of summer's rest and ease