Poetry

Art for The Voice

2023-08-26T16:55:44+09:3026 August 2023|Poetry|

The Effective Living Centre is co-hosting Indigenous arts events this week in support of the proposed First Nations Voice to Parliament. Tuesday evening, a film screening and conversation with the director; this weekend [...]

spiritual but not

2023-05-24T11:10:45+09:3024 May 2023|Poetry|

fragile we call to each other fragile we meet fragile breaking, falling apart fragile we stand together fragile strangers fragile humans more human together, fragile opening to Sacred mystery, fragile breaking falling open fragile [...]

while the jacarandas burst

2022-12-08T10:50:09+10:308 December 2022|Poetry|

jacarandas shout rebirth! life turns out of winter sleep; yet, spring’s unseasonal storms wash purple tears in torrents a brother, all of a sudden; a mother, cancer let go at last the trees and [...]

of ripples, glistening

2022-09-13T12:09:53+09:3010 October 2022|Poetry|

sunlight shows the surface ripples, glistens gold on dew-dropped leaves; warms my legs and blinds me as I squint past upper story windows to the vast pristine blue from hidden perches, kookaburras’ laughter draws [...]

returning

2022-09-08T12:18:28+09:3012 September 2022|Poetry|

golden floodlight lifts greens to bolder brightness against deep grey – lifts me on a rolling wave of petrichor I can almost hear on my heart’s memory of the ocean – a sudden taste [...]

cherished

2022-09-08T15:43:35+09:301 August 2022|Poetry|

my body leans into it, the warmth: starved of it, these winter days of grey my body reaches up to it, the expanse: breathes again out from under heavy skies my body stretches into [...]

Whisper on My Palm Book Launch

2022-10-13T13:51:10+10:302 April 2022|Poetry|

On Thursday 31 March, my latest poetry collection, Whisper on My Palm, was launched at Rise Sanctuary, Canberra. Rev Drs Ockert Meyer (United Theological College, Sydney) and Sarah Bachelard (Benedictus Contemplative Church) spoke eloquently of poetry [...]

Listen to the Whispers

2022-10-13T13:52:58+10:3025 January 2022|Poetry|

Poems from Whisper On My Palm  Whisper On My Palm is a new collection of poems I will have published with Resource Publications in 2022. These are poems through the experiences of grief, illness, [...]

hope arising

2022-09-06T12:11:25+09:3018 December 2021|Poetry|

hearing Michelle, Mikhaila, Alison, Jade, and Tania speak at the Rise Christmas Party 2021 from this still space, this gentle pace of gather, together, communion, we ponder – hope – [...]

Touch

2022-10-13T13:54:27+10:3024 August 2021|Poetry|

I cannot hold your hand today, friend or stranger, when we meet. I take instead the rose’s leaf, ‘hold me’, it said, ‘offer me your greeting.’ I cannot share embrace with [...]

Title

Go to Top