New calling

Generations carved from
Giant's causeway
Lava flow of war
Igneous rock hardens
Into a pathway across
Vast waters separated by
Continental drift
Forming political shores
Generations have traversed
To find a new life by boat

Now, since my birth
Family lines divided
By technology
Sounds beeps and static
Gave way new intelligence
New lightning fast
Ways of doing
Meanwhile, just being
For those who can recall
The differing bird calls
Sounds peeps and trills
Calling us out into
The vast wide world
To become new again

Placid shores

The salty sea understands
Vast unbounded loneliness
Despite surrounded by
Bountiful land
Fringed with company
Immersed in memories
Exuding calmest thought
Her placid shores
Lap at my feet
Spurring me on
‘The School Beach’ Taroona Tasmania

Tell her

How do I tell her?
Devotion rises
Tide to chin
Sea grass waves
Goodbye

How to live a dream?
Kitchen window spying
Blue gum branches
Conjures fantasies
Surprises

How to love oneself?
Believe there is more
Waiting somewhere
Far away unknown
Renowned

How to make sense?
Words splayed daily
Confusion sets in
Love on the spectrum
Beginnings
Fogbow on Derwent River at Taroona, Tasmania

Lady Nuyina

Twenty degrees latitude 
Below Great Southern Island
Magnitude makes her home
In darkest sky

Nightfall, far from
Fluorescent light haze
She struts across horizon
Skirts lifted she parades

As thousands of admirers
Fill their eyes lenses
With her spectacle
Lady Aurora Nuyina

Ageless beauty adoring
Ancient wise ones
To common modern
Homo sapiens

Green light oxygen collides
Pink and red nitrogen spikes
Blue and purple helium high
Dare not reduce to molecules

Spark ignites romance
Mainlanders hop aboard planes
At the mere chance of
Watching her dance

Aura irresistible
Star signs equinox
Aries rising
Cabaret curtain milky way

Stage mirrors Southern Ocean
Audience adoring humans
Seals and penguins
A light of hope in darkness

Solar flares Earth's life giver
True beauty filled pleasure
Though hibernation blinds
Blue screen haze

Come out one and all
To greet our lady
Of Southern Skies
To fill minds with wonder
Aurora Australis Saturday 11th May 2024 at Triabunna Tasmania. Photo by Sereena Ashlin.

Fleeting moments

Some like sky 
Affect ever changing
Fleeting clouds as moments
Intentions dissipate

Others are moonshaped
Soothsayers drawing in
Ocean whim of attraction
Bold orb to winsome sliver

While those most like
Giants of the forest
Branches give shade to
Vulnerable young creatures

Might shed leaves to reinvigorate canopy
A season long hopeful wait
Of beauty immeasurable

While one of deeply held belief
Molten desire tense decades
Ashen interest rises
Eruption surprises

Constant fault lines rift
Ocean islands drift
Gentle seasons in the South
Etched in my memory forever