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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Jack of Angels

JACK OF ANGELS Jack of Angels is searching For a ladder to Heaven ‘Cause he’s sprained his wing And it hurts to fly Little Mirriam dances around him Asking child’s questions Eyes flash like dark diamonds And their baggage – a puppy and a bird Wiggle wih curiosity and unguarded hope Jack’s footprints shine on [...]

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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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Robin Davidson, Theatre Maker

Robin Davidson is a director, performer, writer and teacher of theatre and performance. He works mostly in Commedia dell’Arte, clown, playback theatre, forum theatre, poetry and community theatre. Check out his website at www.robindavidson.co-operista.com

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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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