well-being

Peace be with you

2023-04-24T10:33:06+09:3023 April 2023|Ministry of Presence|

Reflection for Unley Uniting Church, 16 April 2023 : Easter 2 John 20:19–31 Peace for his disciples 1 The beloved It was strange: before he said peace, before we knew he [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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