Floriade

In spring children ran Through rainbows on stems Hand holding hand Through holiday swarms — In winter-bare trees Flew coloured balloons Like the strangest of flowers Like coloured moons — Girls rocked their fairy wings And glittering haloes Boys worked their capes Like trainee super-heroes — And musicians jammed On temporary stands While costumed players [...]

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For Pauli

There’s a way through life That your feet learn by walking Fluid as water, changeable as weather The path you walk starts at birth And ends at your death Yet it began before you And will continue after you The way is its own magic It owns you and transforms you And nurtures you like [...]

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Ode to King’s Dark Tower

I’ve been reading Stephen King’s Dark Tower series and I can only regret that I didn’t find it years earlier. I’m up the fourth book, so there’s a few more to go. The beauty of the language and imagery floors me, not to mention a rip roaring adventure featuring characters drawn by a master. I’m [...]

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2009 – Here’s to Absent Friends, Mad Poets and Books

The ANU Poets Lunch has continued , in various incarnations,   for the last 30 years – and remains a mad poets’ wine party where Alice is always tipsy but never drunk and the Cheshire cat passes around non-animal rennet cheeses.  The latest episode was held on Wednesday 2nd December at the ANU Emeritus Faculty. This [...]

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Song for young lovers

On Saturday, we held a party for a much loved young couple who are starting out together. A new poem has been dedicated to them.

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Purring Centre

Hello everyone. This is my first post in a little while. I’ve gone back to work – yay! though not full time yet. I just uploaded a new poem, quite cute, that bit me out of nowhere, like all good poems & kitty cats should.  It’s sitting under Poems about Feelings,  just waiting for a [...]

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Two Poems for Mitzie

I had a loving little cat, whom I still miss. I wrote these two poems when she died, then  lost them. They finally surfaced last year and it made me cry again to read them. I’ve posted them under ‘Love Poems’. Mitzie died on Christmas Eve, 6 years ago.  I wonder where the time has [...]

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Transitions – limens, thresholds and boundaries

I am fascinated by transitions – just look at my silvergull picture – she can fly, but she is on the ground.  She stands on the shore and faces the sea. All those lovely transitions – limens, thresholds, sunsets, birth & death, metamorphosis, horizens, shorelines, dreams. All that amazing potential you can step into – [...]

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Dark Beauty

This poem is more chiseled, more finely etched than most of what I’ve written. I wrote it after an intense lunchtime discussion with a friend over a good bottle of red. Cheers.

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New Year and New Poem

Season’s greetings to everyone.  We had a loverly New Year here – a small group of much loved younglings christened our new sunroom with music – rockstar, home cooking and laughter.  A great start for the year and the room still rings with their happiness – it seems to have permeated the wood. I’ve posted [...]

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