while the jacarandas burst
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 [...]
Listen to the Whispers
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, [...]
Touch
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 [...]
Heaven is not the goal
life on earth as it is in heaven Reflection for a funeral Colossians 3:12–17 As a general rule, Estelle B did not engage in the scandalous practice of marking the pages [...]
Another anniversary. Another poem.
Eighteen Even now, it's as if no time at all has gone. But you have. You have; and the space gapes a void with no hugs or your laughing [...]
Last Christmas
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 [...]
Ten albums of impact
From time to time, friends tag each other on Facebook in ten day sharing sprees on a theme: black and white photo from your day; albums that had a significant impact; books you love. [...]
You have to feel the feelings, Sarah
When knowing is not enough I know that emotions are important; that emotions are interpretive, responsive, guiding. I know that feeling emotions is important for our well-being. The method for interpreting the Bible [...]
all my tears
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 [...]
Choking
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 [...]
Diary of a Chronically Exhausted Vicar. Episode 39
I am back in Canberra, back to the rhythms and practices that are helping me regain good health. The treatment I receive with a chiropractor tends to open one's emotions. So, returning [...]
Diary of a Chronically Exhausted Vicar. Episode 38
Precisely at the moment we thought we’d found hope and a way forward into better health, along comes another challenge to send me several steps backwards again. People talk about what an [...]