Poem Category: Australian

father’s shed
all his weekends spent
mostly in neatness.

Greening
the tastes of the pond
waterlilies.

Sunrise sea
the waves pour in
from the light.

Crescent moon
climbing not moving
the Pine cones.

On the moon
only the river red Gums
reflecting.

After the storm
our marmalade cat
tiptoes the lawn.

Spring rain
cacti shaping leaves
to the same needles.

Leaning all over father
replacing a wheel
on her doll’s pram.

Turtledove meat …
how tenderly the eagle
feeds her young.

Blinding heat
bright lizard eyes
from the just-raked leaves.