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Love and other flowers

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That bespoke place in the brain
Next to memory
Smell and taste
Lead me to dream awake

Lashings of cream with rhubarb cake
Pearl white shells sit idly by
As she comes and goes
Lucky to be plucked from the sea

Eager hands admired so brilliantly
Abalone bilateral symmetry
Reused diaries
Tip toe through last year

Ruminations on cake and cream
Another few hundred photographs
Under my belt
A haunted belief

Things are still not as they seem
Ritual of coffee making
Resurrects the voice of the past
Reciting how it's made

We always begin again until the end
Living breathing bodily houses
full of living apparitions
Of love and other flowers
Gaulthera hispida. Copperleaf snowberry. Lake Dobson, Mt Field National Park Tasmania

Love like

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A sign language
Understood completely
without a single word
To know what one feels
A living eulogy
To be oneself
Without apology
To be cheered on
By your own team
Receive outstretched arm
When you fall
A desire to be known
Weathered scars and all.
Richea Pandanifolia – Mt Field National Park Tasmania

Love more

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Do everything you can
To tell someone you love them
Even if they don’t understand 
Why someone would.
It is a given
That one who struggles 
To see themselves 
As loveable
Need it more
Than those who
Love themselves more
Than you
Pimelea nivea, Riceflower, kunanyi/ Mt Wellington Tasmania

Never erased

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Tears spilled
Into ink well
Until overflowed
Onto blank page
Of future days
Now never erased

If I'd begged 
Bowed down to power
Where would I be now?
Holding the broken limbs
Of my worn out pride
Barely alive
Pterostylis decurva, Summer greenhood, kunanyi / Mt Wellington Tasmania

No one knows

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Purest secrets of heart
Are always one's own
No prying ear
Or peering eye
Could ever come near
Mystery of mind
Far from critique
No matter how many
Mouths ill speak
Suspicions creep
Upon mere kindness
How often friends
Are lost in mire
No one knows
How love or life grows
Richea dracophylla (Dragon heath), kunanyi / Mt Wellington Tasmania