Category Archives: Women

Incantations

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Behind soft closed eyes
Resigned
Lights out
Play the reel again
Click switch
Tick of film
Coursing through
Ferris wheel of time
Bulb warms soft
Against the greyness
Dust smokes away

Again
In the park
Walking along chatting 
With a friend
Observing absences
Post pandemic life
Look up
She materialises -
Wishes surprise
Creases in face 
melt away
Helium smiles 
lift the sky

Her eyes dart
Concerned for friend
I say nothing
Pretend 
But quip on the cans
In their hand
Flashback to teen girl
Sitting on the Datto
With treasured women
The pictures she used to send melt my heart over again

Jealous I am
She laughs and introduces 
The dog but not friend
An afterthought
Living happily ever after
Cranial incantations
I do not write
But summons memories 
To illuminate life, again
Scotch Thistle by the Rivulet, Lenah Valley Tasmania

Love that keeps you warm

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Desire as the heat emanating 
From the gas stove lit - extinguished
Once realised
One can build a fire - with what?

Outside these walls' shapely diameter
Of forest elders
Glacial remains confound me
Monuments to time gone by

Tears of loss and such colder
Forming peaks and troughs 
Boulders of thought crushed
Weight of centuries soft snowfall

To walk together amongst it
Not for faint hearted
Tenacity, grit resilience
Packed duvet downy feathers

Love is love is all
Lake Osborne to Hartz Mountain, Tasmania

Winter arrives

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Winter arrives slowly
A knock on the door
One morning
Lover calling you
Back to bed 
Mid June promises
Teasing along
Since they escaped
To furthest parts
Of the landscape
All summer long
Nothing to do
But wait for frost
First signs of 
Pink frosted dawn
Hope she will come again
Alone
King Billy Pine at Lake Osborne, Hartz Mountain, Tasmania