Count the stars of heaven

Our stories are more than the sand on the shore

On edge

Posted on February 21, 2024 by aperture

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

Mind palace

Posted on February 20, 2024 by aperture

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

Passing joys

Posted on February 19, 2024 by aperture

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

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

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