Poetry

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 [...]

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Like a brave green shoot

2022-10-13T13:59:27+10:3026 January 2021|Poetry|

Burns night hope, 2021  Oh my hope is like a new green shoot that's reaching for the sun. Oh, my hop is like a dancing tune, I'm bound to come [...]

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Last Christmas

2022-10-13T13:59:13+10:308 December 2020|Poetry|

For Christmas 2019 and 2020 (and the rest)  Last Christmas gave us a fright, lines of dazzling light, searing wounds visible from highest skies. This Christmas, we can not light even [...]

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Tucked in

2022-10-13T14:01:54+10:3020 June 2020|Poetry|

these clean flannelette sheets smell like the cupboard in which they sat through the warm months, waiting, and remind me of her house – not her sheets, for they were stored [...]

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all my tears

2022-10-13T14:05:07+10:303 April 2020|Poetry|

for Dad I cry with Fatigue, and I am crying for you I cry, inflamed muscles aching, I am crying for you I cry anger at isolation, but find: I cry for you I [...]

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Choking

2022-10-13T14:04:09+10:308 January 2020|Poetry|

A lament for Australia Summer 2020 Where do we begin with this great wall of fire or that fire storm or the hungry angry monster? Where do we begin? How do we enfold them [...]

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