Friday, 23 January 2026

Climate Change......


                                            My love hits the stone wall again and again

                                            Why try at all?

                                            Were we not born to love?

                                            It rages in the end

                                            bashing its saltwater tears

                                            in great waves upon the unresponsive black rocks

                                            of a shore so hostile, nothing will penetrate it

                                            nothing will crumble it, not even in the end of time

                                            Oh, how indifference kills us all..... 

                                            Look elsewhere then, flow up the shore

                                            and soak into the sand

                                            which receives so gladly

                                            slurping it up as though there is no end to love

                                            neither there is.

                                            the anger has a purpose now,

                                            soak the sand, leave the rocks

                                            to wish for the soothing 

                                            of the salt water waves, they will

                                            no longer come

                                            climate change you know..... 

 

PS I found this writing of 2008  in a book I found this morning looking for other things....like you do!

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Thursday, 1 January 2026

Wisdom in the age of anxiety....


                                                 Shall we pray for Wisdom

                                                to not know what we think we know

                                                to see the wisdom of the tree

                                                which lives fully empowered 

                                                by the earth its roots silently

                                                nourishing not only itself

                                                but its neighbors also

                                                giving shelter freely to birds

                                                shading big and little creatures

                                                 in its collected compost

                                                so ancient a recycling 

                                                of its discarded and released leaves

                                                of exhausted helpfulness

                                                to absorb its silence

                                                is to be content...... 

Friday, 19 December 2025

The Mystery of it All

 
 Trees embrace each other 

in the wild winds joining

their leaves and branches

in exuberant forgetfulness

that their limbs may be torn 

thrown to the ground

their bark in such colourful 

profusion on the earth below

making shelter for the little

creatures scuffling underneath

the silence and the mystery of it all...... 

Friday, 19 September 2025

haiku for Friday

 

        mosquito whining now

        sleep has gone walkabout

        hand on the flyswat 

Wednesday, 17 September 2025

Shearing time Riding home Hughes Park 1965

                        
                                                 Tall, thick trunked yet

                                                elegantly limbed Blue gums

                                                Golden on the side of the setting sun

                                                their shadows giving deep resonance 

                                                to space and line

                                                Weaving through, a Stockman

                                                on a lightly stepping Golden horse

                                                red Kelpie at heel, sheep mustered

                                                homeward bound for a shower

                                                Brandy and Dry , mutton dinner

                                                cooked on a wood stove, wine

                                                Perhaps a sweet jam roly 

                                                with Mrs Edwards fresh cream.....

                                                Bed! 

 

                                                 

Tuesday, 9 September 2025

Frogs....

                                                        frogs croaking sonnets 

                                                        night full of splashing water

                                                        live foam come morning
 

Wednesday, 13 August 2025

More Teritorial Disputes II

The Horse is watching the kangaroos in the evening light. Don't you dare come into my paddock he thinks, this is my paddock the bossman told me. He sowed it with fresh pasture seed and it will be feed for me this coming summer.

The Horse knows kangaroos have big feet which will flatten the crop if they get in and loll around in it. 

I have hard feet thinks the Horse and have metal shoes on which the farrier comes and takes off every six weeks. He trims my hooves thinks the Horse and nails the iron shoes back on. Sometimes when the farrier does this I turn my head and nuzzle the straps of his leather apron or his head if it is near enough.

The sun is low on the horizon thinks the Horse and my feed will surely be put into the feed bin hanging on the wall of my shelter shed.  Chaff and bran and applecider vinegar mixed with warm water if the night is going to be cold. I will push my muzzle in right up to my nostrils, it is so good....


 Tonight the mother of the bossman is feeding me, she tells me the bossman is far away working twelve hour shifts in the mine where he works earning money to buy feed for me. Hay is very expensive these days because of the drought.... Have a good night ,she tells me, and be kind to the kangaroos.......