Door to life adventure nightmares friends home.
mountain
rock tower draped with the white flag of winter
old man peak of snowy hair
sheer slopes summit almost out of reach
Pen - 2
red stick
point of view
over-correcting
Pen 1
thin body filled
with the blue blood
of passion
Kangaroo
contemplating
the late
afternoon sun
BOTTLEBRUSH
In the dusty heat
of a Melbourne summer afternoon
red spikes flare in the street,
brush vermilion on azure.
Sunlight sears the edges
of everything, metal gates
burn to the touch,
the air holds its breath.
In the cool clay evening
of autumn blush and caress,
your hands slide over me,
your fingers, as they
brush my face,
are softly serrated
like bottlebrush leaves.
UP
(a monostich)
The clouds are safely hiding infinity.
#australianbush #bushfireafter
Mountain
rock tower
draped with
the white flag
of winter
old man
peak of
snowy hair
sheer slopes
summit almost
out of reach.
Three haiku
Two burnished fish held
in rushing water arms. One
leaps aside to swim.
Pink fluff rises to
strong stem, silken fronds spring out.
Galah feather lost.
Grey-brown moth brushed with
silver fur turns to show her
red striped petticoat.
Vaux-le-Vicomte, France. #chateau
Now
child of mine
this is no pop song
your cold eyes
send me
to the South Pole.
all that fire
and now
our black
dead
hearts
ash like grey-black snow
charred trees
the smell of burning lingers
overlays the silence
TANKA
fat concrete bird bath
wagtails and wrens fluff feathers
bury beaks in the water
as they preen and double dip
rainbows float in the wet spray.