Tag: poem
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The Grey Mornings
I start at the sound of each car passing on midnight streets outside; hoping it’s you, knowing it isn’t. Dreams fade with your warmth as reality slowly intrudes: it would be enough to fall into your arms and know I’d wake there, too. I am only real when you are near, but you never stay…
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This is the winter of darkness
everything lead grey—heavy as storm clouds.The trail I follow around the lake, swallowedby mildew and mud. Branch bridges and detourscrisscross, from walkers bypassing flash floods.A wind howls through weeping willow skeletons,haunting my passage. Boots grow heavy with eachstep. Treacherous soles threaten to betray.Nestled among tree roots, wood ducks huddlein sleepy pairs, wings folded—waiting.This grey world…
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Wedding Poem
It’s a fleeting moment– a red sky at twilight, rushing to the long night; the last russet leaf clinging to bough as autumn inhales, breathes out. You know this, you’ve felt it in the grey light of dawn, in that pause between waking and finding. You’ve heard it whisper through the dry grass of summer–a…
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The Wind Whispers, The Wind Sighs
– after Longfellow The wind whispers, the wind sighs, the dawn light brightens, a magpie cries; amongst the gum trees tall and green a girl becomes a faerie queen. And the wind whispers, the wind sighs. Morning settles beneath silk skies, her reign flits by like dragonflies; deep shadows dress the naked hill in dusk,…
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Leaving Violet Town
The boy sits alone while the carriage fills around him. It’s a V-line, a long haul, thundering into morning. Barely legible, a chipped sign fades and Violet Town falls away. He retreats to a paperback kingdom, while oblivious wheels devour miles. Sometimes his eyes rise to watch the landscape grind from here to there. Halogen…
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Deek’s Golden Day
A chill October morning. GreyMelbourne, 1982. Usually, we studentswould be outside at recessrunning ourselves warm. Not today. In the close schoolroom we huddlearound a tiny tv screen,watching the Commonwealth Gamesin Brisbane. Watching, in colour as marathon star, Rob ‘Deek’De Castella, battles two rivalsin third place through Fortitude Valley.Close to the 42km finish line Deek lengthens…
