Poem Category: Australian

a beach stroll
the crab claws
just under foot

twilight fades
feeling insomnia
begin to worry

mangrove tide
a silent movie
surrounds the strutting heron

no magpies care
… if mornings
I must join quietly

childless…
these starry nights
just the Big Bang expanding

long drought
the small frog cry
at its end

from the first light
my ears hear only
the bell-bird’s tinkle

wattle
gold in the sunshine
gold in itself

sunset river
a fallen Gum drifts
slow as the breeze

late for school
skimming pebbles
on the lake near home