Acceptance is key

Posted on July 13, 2025 by aperture

I accept that you are embedded within 
Like a river stone, smooth and sturdy 
While life rushes over it
In full spring flood.

I know that I feel it
All the time, unconsciously 
It worries me sometimes
How deep it sinks in

Yet, did the river ever wonder
How or why its rocky bed
Ended up buried inside?
Preventing precious sand and silt 
From gushing downhill? No

It likely started a millenia ago
As ice carved deep into rock cathedral
Just as parts of me split off
Lost for decades, until now.

Snow melt reveals beauty laid deep
Life flourishes all around it
Sometimes it's heavy, but it grounds me
Save precious gems, my reality.

So this is me letting you go.

Lake Esperance, Hartz National Park Tasmania

Eve

Posted on July 11, 2025 by aperture

Woollens hung on bedside chair
Buckets brimming with outer wear
Sticks and bottles, spikes and flasks
Beanies and even balaclava mask.

Promise of adventure lingers still
On the lee of dreams fulfilled
Anxious thoughts evade like mist
Must protect the glare skin kiss.

Nuts and bars, apple for the car
Cosy comforts carry too far
Tunes to take us on the ride
To alpine wonders, step outside.

Alpine adventures

Posted on July 5, 2025 by aperture

May your winter be as long
As you need to take off
Like a snow angel basking
In its glittery softness

May your climb be as steep as
Your knees can appreciate 
To release the adrenalin
High peak's view appease

May alpine flora be abundant 
Endless stands of snow gums
Far as the eye, twisted delight
Interspersed bouquets of colour

May twittering friends be close
Watching over your steps
Light feathered entertainment 
As you stop and catch your breath

May adventures be far enough 
To exhilarate, yet close
So friends can safely join
To share a tea along the way.

View from kunanyi / Mt Wellington, Tasmania. Photo by Sara Stevens.

Retreat

Posted on July 4, 2025 by aperture

All we can do
To keep our eyes 
Focussed on the prize
To keep the walls 
around our thoughts
From caving in

Flow

Posted on June 26, 2025 by aperture

Let grief flow
To try to stop
It’s winding course

Like the force
Of a river
Aching for sea

Opens the way
For opportunity
To know oneself 

Obstacles seem
Insurmountable 
Compassion may bear

Steady your feet
Plant them deep
Flow with grief

Colour me blind

Posted on June 24, 2025 by aperture

All this time
Tracing the edges
Watching the lines
Ink fills empty spaces

Candy bar colours
From head to toe
Siamese dream
Waking slow

Starlit darkness
Winter solstice smile
Blue morning
Colour me blind

Reclaim

Posted on June 22, 2025 by aperture

Memories permeate
Through reclaimed
Rock walls 
Of the present
Illuminating
Iridescent morn

The wait of it

Posted on June 16, 2025 by aperture

If I pour my heart
Out to you
Is it too heavy?

You see, I need
A good strong woman
A big heart
For if she wishes
To pour out too
I have grown strong
From holding on
For so long.

Some Other Soul

Posted on June 14, 2025 by aperture

Save me not
From this world
Shop of horrors

One who will
Save me yet
From myself

Perpetual 
Broken heartedness 
Self imposed abandon 

Whose presence
Has gravity
Of the kind kind

Holds up a mirror
Says, I like your flaws
They match your expectations

Then we hold hands
Into the wide blue
Sky, sea and yonder

Once it turns
Red, orange, pink
Sit in wonder

Till sleep befalls
Stars unnumbered 
Past light future wish 

Some other soul
Like mine

Any day now

Posted on June 9, 2025 by aperture

Hemmed in by chosen
Memories 
Discarded ones collect
Pools of regret
Out in the driveway

Older I get
Smaller the space
I inhabit
More selective 
What constitutes 
A treasure in my mind 

Music, art and books
Unread stories 
To discover soon as
I set foot
Out of the hallways
Of yesterday 
Any day now