Poem Category: Australian

Scarlet forest
sunset slanting
through the ghost gum leaves.

Debutante ball
with chrysanthemum
white smiles.

Shower mist
following her into
the frangipani scents.

The tide returns…
driftwood stays
breaking waves.

Antique shop
rings in the table top
showing the maple’s age.

Train whistles
the snow quiet town
closed for the night.

Telephone line
with the laughs of kookaburras
to something just heard.

Letter box
the post man straightens
the old girl’s fence.

Apple trees
saps drawing up a frost
from the fell earth.

Summer is fleeting
another cicada
at the end of its shrills.