Pull at my heart
Knowing your power
Over me
First thing this morning
A peace settles
Over me
I'm floored in awe
Your light shines
Over me
Wait ever patiently
For this phase to grow
Over me
Will you choose clouds
Far off landscapes
Over me?
Ain't it cool?
A little moonlight
Sing the blues
There's no greater grief
Than the love that was never
Allowed to be freed
To know you deeply
By life experience
How it feels
To lift someone up
On your shoulders
Only to be pushed down
Bury me standing
How it feels
To be kept in shadows
Of a gas giant
Evading their orbiting moons
Enabling their gravity
To destroy all
In your path
This is not me
This is not you
Circling Jupiter
Late discovered
What if we found
Each other too soon?
Wait patiently
For orbits to lock
So to know
How it feels
For life to revolve
Around you
I know now with clarity
That looking back affords
How beautiful the night
When I wanted to be yours
I know now with certainty
Chain reaction of emotion
Catapults my life
Beyond debris of an explosion
I know now with compassion
The path laid out behind
A shared choice for us
Out of love for our kind
I know with creativity
The pictures in my mind
Painted with colours of
Courage you helped me find
I know now with confidence
The downpour from above
Came not from vulnerability
A rare brush with real love
Barely recovered
Just one glass
Sparked a flame
Wild rampaging
When you walked
Away
Strangely tended
Just one face
Lingers all night
Soothed, tamed
Falling rains
Stay
*Butterflies of Tasmania, Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club Inc. 1994.
She worships the sea
Sacred rituals on
Tepid tide
Sunday mornings
While I hide
Under cover
Worshipping
Its maker for
The very heart
Of her
Only time can elucidate
The depth of blue
Storms dissipate
Pulling confused debris
Out to sea
Endless treasures beneath
Though not a coin
Exchanged
No ill-gotten gain
Wilderness reserve
Sustained our futures' sake
Fables, myths and legends
Barely touch the surface
Canon of heartfelt
Love in its place
Delivered in waves
Washed ashore
Upon fate's call
We might meet
In this place
First, dip the toe
Wade to rocky outcrop
Float to surface
Let the affect
Carry you away
A bond ever-giving
Calling me to stay
Passing decades ripple down
River washing away debris
I stand willingly
Against tide and storm
Rising up
Seemingly to test resolve
Another decade cold feet
Bury deeper into ground
Toes tickled by roots
Holding me fast
Another few and my time
Will be past
With only the memory
Of those I sheltered
Whether they be ghosts
Dreams, or heroes
At last
Here I write Words we might aspire to Though we'll likely disappoint each other But we will try not to In moments when we realise Our needs did not come first We will hold our hurt for a little while Then allow time and space For the other to grow Be nurtured, then return, If she may. These vows may increase Or slowly be erased Their effect will be life-lasting But if we find ourselves Staring at a blank page We can write new vows Afresh with hope or Fold it lovingly Into a sleek airplane and send it on its way
Count the stars of heaven 