Poem Category: Australian

Summer wind chimes
the fireflies spinning
around the night air.

Piebald cat
caught slinking past
our games in the pool.

Flood-lights
the lake and sky
the same full moon. .

Dawn opens
another magpie tenor
underneath the lead.

Apple tree budding …
last year
hair to pull a comb through.

Jogging slower
under the flowering Gums
that sing with cicadas.

Paddling up river …
a horse ponders
and returns to drink.

A bright sunbeam
in the eucalypt
where the butterflies mate.

A scatter of clouds,
silver-edged
fruit bats across the moon.

Ripe corn rustles
turn me around
to the scarecrow.