July 2012
As we drove we saw the sky with many clouds
And the earth with many trees
The earth is reachable
And the sky is not
But still the sky is here
Telling us the unreachable is near
And above the trees which we may go near and touch
Another world is as real
And a much a part of life as it
The other half
The other hemisphere
Haiku
I am that I am
And will be what I will be
God said to Moses
To the east darkness
As far away as the moon
The sun’s hidden face
In the east
A day that we knew
Is now night
White sails
Under a bridge –
Blue waves
As day ends
The black night
Sends stars
A winter
Dawn – the last stars are
Shivering
Winter clouds –
The sphere of a
Dandelion
A bonfire
In winter – consuming
The night
Surrounding
Australia are
White oceans
Clouds remind
Us of places we
Cannot go
Dry and wet
Cycles – a river
Bed of sky
The sun crossed
By clouds – the
Moment we die
My eyes –
A window to
Two worlds
Little daisy
Copying your mother
The sun
Travelling
Bee from flower to
Flower
Tiniest
Face – the face of a
Flower
Bird in the
Blue – it swims in the
High waters
Tell me the
Name of the sun – its
Burning me
Near to us
Four light years away –
Our neighbour
A garden –
Host to our outside
Under sky
Today or
Tomorrow – the end
Of the world
Light in the
Clouds wind in the trees –
Passing by
An ant lifts
The heaviest load –
The bee flies
Fifty years
Since my birth – a half
Million hours
A ticking
Clock – a day ticks on
The sky’s wall
On New Year’s
Day – a pebble thrown
Into water
Sleeping bear –
Where has your winter
Gone
Lion in
Your den – your children
Are hungry
Platypus –
Eyes cannot help you
In water
Universe
How large you are –
Reality
Universe
Contained in a tear
On your cheek
A ship in
The mist – the sun on
A grey day
The candles
Were lit on the cake –
Shining days
My brother
Searches for frogs – a
River hides
A mind can
Contain many worlds – each
A bubble
Do words last
Forever – carrying
Life with them
Hospitable –
Words to each
Generation
Singing bird –
How sweet the sky is
Above you
A bird flies
Across nothing to
Reach a branch
Sun
Take your clouds
Off
Dignity
Dark notes of a cello
In flight
Your new face
Looking at me in
The morning
Your new face
Sleeping upon your
Mother’s breast
Afternoon
Hour – the sun starts its
Slow descent
The milky
Way – the flight of white
Cockatoos
The milky
Way – summer field of
Carnations
The milky
Way – waves breaking
On the sand
Poetry –
Patterns on sand washed
By the waves
Birdsong as
Afternoon ends –
Echoing dawn
Symmetry
Of day – the light and
The darkness
Transfigured
Clouds – the gift of a
Winter day
My blue coat –
Warmer than the blue
Winter sky
Tadpole in
The pond – little tail
Full of life
After the
Rainstorm – tadpoles found
In a ditch
Silver light –
The moon come into
Flower
Heavy heart –
The day lost its way
As night fell
A womb of
Stars – forgotten
Beginnings
She makes her
Music as day is
Completed
Time to cook
Dinner – the first star
Is shining
How many
Songs – the stars are there
Answering
My children
Are older – soon children’s
Children
Weaving words –
A net for catching
Fish in
Soon a lonely grave
On a hillside – a Sabbath
Of darkness then dawn
In the west
A day yet to be
Awaits us
Drops of sunshine
Fall on my face
And body
Hear that sound –
Nine moons and now a
Baby cries
Why does it
Affect us – beautiful
Music
Beautiful
Sky never dies like
We do
Carried high
On a swell – ocean
Surrounds me
Crashing wave –
Night breaking over
Day
City of lights seen
From the air – cities of light
Seen from below – stars
A ghostly
Ship seen from afar –
The moon
Cockatoos
Flying into the sun –
Dancing flames
Stone into
Water death into
Life
Arrow shot
To the sky landing
On earth – man
A ball of
String unwinding –
Life’s passing
The rain’s path –
It finds a way to
Us here
Our path
From here to the
Rain
Give me a
Gold coin – your dowry
Says night
Bonfire in
Late afternoon – my
Childhood home
Rain at rest –
A dewdrop on a
Flower
The sea in
The sky – a storm is
Breaking
Lightning –
Stray arrows from a
Distant war
Lightning –
Shooting star too close
For comfort
Lightening –
The heat of battle
Driven home
A twig is
My boat in a race
After rain
The sky is
Still heavy – the river
Runs high
Kosciusko –
White mountain among
Clouds
My son walks
Beside me – a mountain
Beyond
Summer sun
Cooled by the mountain
We walk on
Night falls –
We walk on a path
That’s not seen
The snow falls –
Time passing by with
No footprint
Cicadas
Hide from us in the
Green treetops
Cicadas –
Heard everywhere but
Nowhere seen
A white mist
Has swallowed the world
In one gulp
Bellbirds sing
In the valley – stars
Shining near
A bush burns
The morning and night –
Moses hear
I am that I am
And will be what I will be
God says to Moses
To the east darkness
As far away as the moon
The sun’s hidden face
A lonely
Grave on a hillside
And then dawn
Star gowned
You enter the gates
Of morning
Light on floor –
Shadows adjusting
Their black hair
A dance of
Shadows – the garden
In our room
Sun and earth
In Pas de Deux – a
Shadow’s dance
Rain clouds come –
Bird’s sweetness mellowed
By darkness
Chirping calls –
Shadows leave as the
Rain clouds come
The sound of
Day moves through cycles –
Hear the rain
Falling leaves
In heavy rain – birds
Warned you
The road shines –
The sky has come down
To visit
The sun goes –
But brightness is here
On the road
They keep on
Singing accompanied
By the rain
Rain has left
To visit neighbours
In mountains
The blue sky
Has not gone – look it
Is looking
Dripping leaves
Patiently taking
The sky’s moods
In my house
In my tomb – nature
Still the same
Rain on leaf
In ground in the sky –
Always rain
Blue in sea
In sky in eyes –
The same blue
I wait for
You here in my house
After rain
The road has
Turned blue – rain helps
Sky stay near
Hovering
Gums – how beautiful
Near the sky
White gum trunk –
One side caressed
By sunshine
Now darker
Rain falls – the grey sky
Come near us
Is the grass
Happy this rainy
Afternoon
Bread was there
On a table blessed –
And they saw
As light fades
Other light released
Shines within
Who needs day –
A warm house and friends
Await us
Why fear night –
Sun blessed trees for fire
And shelter
Last stillness –
As day waits for night
To enter
A ship comes
Waiting at the heads
To enter
O earth full
Of wonder and love
And longing
Warm home
Stars are outside – we
Soon will sleep
To be a
River on its way
To its home
Days measure
Time better than clocks –
But slower
The moon comes
And goes – we barely
Notice it
How many
Stars did you see last
Evening
A bell rings –
Someone is being
Farewelled
Dripping leaves
Patiently taking
The sky’s moods
Silence now –
Dreams wait for us on
Our pillow
Light suits a
Room when it is dark –
Until sleep
Five fingers
Wiggling on a hand –
Little fish
Today – soon
Replaced by another
Today
Follow the
Seagulls – they follow
The children
The ferry
Is deep in the sea –
It’s aging
My parents
Sit by the window
Lit by sky
Two thousand
Years – yesterday – a
Burning cross
Tomorrow –
The new heavens and
The new earth
This day in
Paradise – a thief
Enters in
Blue harbour –
In many dreams since
I was young
Layers of
Dreams – folds of a bride’s
Flowing veil
Memory
Often sleeps – we dream
All alone
At the sea’s
Bottom are many
Strange creatures
Waves wash at
Night – no memory
By morning
We wake up –
The ship has moved
In the night
The dark side
Of the moon – our life
Spent in sleep
A house with
Curtains closed – what is
Their life like
The night has
The stars and the
Moon – our dreams
Cloudy night
With no stars – the best
Night of sleep
We sleep – the
Earth circles the sun –
Peaceful ship
What of tomorrow –
New lands to be
Seen
A grey tree
A grey sky behind –
A rainbow
Shadows on
The steps – morning is
Visiting
First light on
A wall – when will I
Feel it
Shadows in
Wind – the air become
Visible
Flickering
Shadows – fast as a
Bird flying
My breath –
A cloud in
Winter
Frost
Winter
Here
Eye
Can see
Sky
Heart
Feeling’s
Home
Hand
Cities
Build
Mind
Flies so
Near
Mouth
My life
Speaks
I
Alone
Am
We
Shall be
Three
God
Is is
God
Joy
Every
Where
The day is
Awake – it has opened
Its eyes
Night
Shall sleep till the sun
Returns
Day
Breathes – shadows
Move
The finest
Rain on my face – the
Size of sky
Wandering
Leaf – have you no home
Any more
A million
Dots of rain on a
Meadow – gifts
A bird flies
Above me where no
One can walk
On the grass
Shadow sits beside
Sunshine
Bright mountain
Range seen through the rain –
Only clouds
Winter’s pale
Blue – the parting glance
Of a day
Today is
Yesterday
Tomorrow
Day will be
Night before it is
Day again
Night –
Day
Blinking
Day –
Night
Dreaming
Clouds –
Eyelids of
The sun
Sun –
Conscience of
The clouds
Stars –
Thoughts of
Night
Sun –
The heart of
The day
The earth is
The body – the sky is
The spirit
The Bible
Contains words – the night
Contains stars
Night –
A day
Dissembled
Day –
A night come to
Its senses
Two hands that
Hold all of life – the
Day and night
Hands outstretched
In an infinity
Of galaxies
My face in
Clouds – my greying hair
And my beard
Drops of rain
Outside – the heartbeat
Of life
We circle
The sun and the sun
Circles us
Minute and
Second hands – the days
And the years
The moon comes
And goes and comes – is
It a wave
What of the
Life in the grass we
Don’t mention
I talk to
You you talk to me –
And between…
I talk to you and
You talk to me – between us
The space a bird flies
A river
As it falls from a
Waterfall
A river
The moment it leaves
River to fall
River as
It enters river
Underneath
River the
Moment it enters
The river
The mist
That surrounds the fall
Of water
The mist
Rising from river
To river
The sound of
Water falling all
Around
The sound of
Nature silenced by
Water falling
I close my
Eyes to see other
Things than these
I open
Them to see the world
As it is
Can one eye
Be closed and one eye
Be open
Water poured
Is still water when
It is poured
The jug is
Empty after water
Is poured
The jug when
It pours is being
A jug
The water
Pouring is being
Water
Empty and full the
Jug is a jug – pouring and
Poured the water is
A leaf has
No time to say no
To the breeze
The breeze has
No time to say please
To the leaf
The path of
A bird as it flies
Through the air
Who made me
Says the raindrop –
Falling
Who threw the
Moon – why doesn’t it
Fall again
A seagull
Takes off over waves –
And is lost
A stone is
Tumbling through the air
Towards earth
I dive in
The water – and my
Body flies
The sun has
Turned again in its
Great circle
A million
Stars – going to their
Own homes
I saw faces
Today of people –
I saw them
God wants to
See face to face – a
Good idea
A face speaks –
Eyes mouth expression
And words
Under that
Sea we can see what
Lives there – eyes
The mind is
Hidden until the
Mouth speaks
Two people
Speak – both are shadow
And the sun
The waves on
Sand and the sand on
The waves
The surge of
Water and stillness
Of the sand
The ocean’s
Exhaustion as it
Climbs the beach
It retreats
To the place where it
Began
The ocean
In time – sand in
Eternity
The sand once
Made of ocean is
Returning
A wave breaks –
The sand does not move
But is pulled
The sea and
The sand are in a
Stately dance
Each wave – each
Sunrise upon the
Earth
Each retreat
Into night – the pull
Of the end
The earth still
Endures – fragments
Of old stars
The blackness
Is full and the night
A deep sea
And a wave
Breaks again upon
The horizon
The wheeling
Seasons – a slower
Day and night
The climbing
Sun and sinking – a
Year long day
What island
Have we come to in
Earth’s journey
Winter is
Now spring when we cross
This water
From a high
Mountain we can see
Summer fields
Behind me
I turn – a bird has
Left the tree
A tree where
The pomegranates
Hang open
Memory
Of autumn is there
On the branch
The air is
Full of scents of
Many times
The tree speaks
Of the other times
It once saw
How many
Days have sunk into
Our eyes
The surf still
Can be heard as it
Always is
The stars are
There and the moon is
Sometimes too
And the sun
Returns and the bird
In the tree
I am and will be
The stone has shifted in this
World – another door
Through which the stars and
Moon and surf and bird and tree
And all things pour
The Great Eye
Eyes are holy
They reveal a person
And alert us to what is beyond revealing
So much of the world comes to us through our eyes
The world pours in
Our eyes place us in it
We look and we are there in life
They are our ship carrying us into the ocean
I look out the window at the mountains
It is night
A light is on in the room
I need to come close to the window to see outside
Otherwise the reflection of the room on the window is all I can see
As I come nearer I see my eyes looking at the mountains
And my eyes are the most mysterious
What ship takes me into that ocean
I know what I am thinking
But my eyes seem to be someone else
A person other people know
And do not know
A person I know
And do not know
A person they reveal
And are unable to reveal
Great eye of
Sky sometimes clouded
With tears
Great eye that
Looks on the wide earth
Each day
Sky blue and
Beautiful wisest
Of all eyes
A thousand
Moods can be read in
Your gaze
You sparkle
This morning I can’t
Keep back tears
The pupil
Of your eye is the
Brightest gold
Your eye is
So beautiful – what
Of the rest
Sometimes I
Seem to see into
Your mind
Are they your
Thoughts – the ten thousand
Stars
What do you
Witness each day on
The earth
No wonder
Your great eye often
Fills with tears
Darkness and
Storms cross with glances
Of lightening
And sometimes
A withering gaze
Of pure fire
But most of
All tenderness day
After day
The softness
Of blue infinitely
Kind
The eye is
A window we see
The heart
The sea is another kind of eye
So deep and so dark
It doesn’t give away much
Accept a knowing that ancient things have been seen
And danger and uncertainty are as real as its waves
And infinite time is set in its gaze
Lovers look into each other’s eyes
What does it mean
To look into the eyes
Are they like clear water
Where we can see the fishes swimming and coral
Are they like clear water
That we could dive in and be surrounded with another element
If l look into your eyes and you into mine
Do we loose ourselves in each other
Until seeing is no longer the issue
But the surface of clear water can reflect other things
Sometimes in stillness we see sky and the procession of clouds
And what the eye reflects is even more beautiful than the depths to be seen
Or it is like a diver looking up through the water to the sky
Tonight as we look west
The great depth of the sky is full
Of the drama of cloud
An armada of ships in full sail
And we watch in wonder
As the great eye closes in sleep
Yellow
Little yellow flower on the top of a high weed
Facing a grey sky
Are you trying to be the sun
You even have white petals like clouds
Yellow is in the sky on a winter afternoon
Gold is on the earth
On the fields and deep in trees
And in my mirror as I drive east from the sun
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