Photo: Isopogon
This tiny planet, swirled in the orbit of an unseasonable heat to set the head to pounding and the eyes to weeping at the merciless sun. Continue reading Photo: Isopogon
Tag: flowers
The Walking Iris
Photograph: Strawflower
First Flower
Today I feel overweight, irritable and compromised as a parent and a human. The housework is burgeoning in that way that each completed task serves to confirm all the other messes and tasks that won’t get done. I decide to … Continue reading First Flower
Fragile and Frantic
Evanescent green Shielded yet alluring, so fragile and frantic Continue reading Fragile and Frantic
Waratah
Ruby torches burned in the stillness of the bushland, not yet beset by the summer shrill of the cicadas. As the heat rose the skinks tumbled through the crisp drifts of eucalyptus leaves, and the sandstone radiated the heat of … Continue reading Waratah
Swans and Flowers
What more than a day, a week,a month,a lifetime?Felt the kiss of the cold sun and the heat of a black swanEngorged on the scent of too many flowers I may find the paths to move to my final instant Continue reading Swans and Flowers
Spring Flowers
Taken in Ku-Ring-Gai Chase National Park Continue reading Spring Flowers
Arrival of Everything
Flowers are manifesting Purple as spiral galaxies Healing as waterFish are rising Plump as hurtful tears Subtle as infidelityTrees are feasting Elegant as skeletons Silent as sadness Continue reading Arrival of Everything
Bend the Grass
He is not a reality, an idea Can thoughts bend the grass? ran with my stones in my pockets stained glass chapels in my eyes choirs in my heart Saw the way the horses dug into the cobbles and no … Continue reading Bend the Grass
Flowers Know Everything
Ephemeral new flowers find the right to judge as though no others knew Sun they alone know right they alone grow fast define the weeds by your own growth Continue reading Flowers Know Everything
Roses at Autumn’s End
Humble red blossoms embalm winter’s promises stained yellow the air of this city scornful and imperious before the sleet falling, embracing the garters of the street sheltering and disguising like paint denying the winter’s fingers. until these blooms fade Continue reading Roses at Autumn’s End
The Lily Whispers
The red rose cries, “She is near, she is near;”And the white rose weeps, “She is late;”The larkspur listens, “I hear, I hear;”And the lily whispers, “I wait.”Alfred Tennyson Continue reading The Lily Whispers
Reckless Sand
No grass, no soil, yet everywhere the wattle clustered recklessly, everywhere trees recited the lyrics gifted by the movement of the uncountable particles of the atmosphere. They sang their songs, though there were no considerations given to whether anyone could … Continue reading Reckless Sand
Flowers Fell, Forests Wept
The dark and flow, the castle-fall Lisped in the cool transparent night, Within the grief of hidden cave I strove to set the stars alight Laid her young lips on my shoulders, the crystal smoke of deer abound While wind … Continue reading Flowers Fell, Forests Wept
Blaze of Obscurity 