Long Tasmanian Poems

I have travelled through the cluttered corridors of my tired mind countless times. 
I have reached deep into the dark abyss of my captive soul and in that profoundly disturbing darkness, I went searching to...

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The bar-tailed godwit
caught birddom by surprise
When word got out
just how far this bird flies

A juvenile Limosa lapponica,
satellite tag 2-3-4-6-8-4
flew nonstop from Alaska
to the Tasmanian shore!
13,560 kilometers nonstop,
eleven days and nights
A new world record for
marathon bird...

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The Bass Strait sealing rush began in eighteen-o-three,
where at least a dozen vessels were wrestling with the sea,
for the China trade was booming, for the want of skins and oils.
This was the first real export,...

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Who killed the president?
It was a fine forenoon when the pilot left the ship in Wilhelmshaven
in Curacao, bound for Maracaibo, Venezuela 
the sea was like a mirror at ease being back on the ocean
Then came...

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Typing away, their words had met,
Across a computer filled internet.
She was a Taz, he was a Scot,
She, beautifully bronzed, he, definitely not!
 
She had bought a picture of his,
From an application called ‘Owned’
Shocked at when he...

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Alexander Pearce, you won’t know the name 
And you’ll gag when you find out his claim to fame
He was sent to Australia for steeling some shoes
According to Ireland’s 1819 crime news
Ended up in Port Author...

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The dream and the truth
I have told those who wanted to listen that once I swam
in the blue lake in Iceland and walked hand in hand 
with a blond Huldra to the dramatic waterfalls asking
to...

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Come here Beautiful,
Allow me to take my time and admire your bodacious body 
Or better yet what I see in front of me
Is one of God’s finest pieces of art 
Relax and unwind, don’t be...

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I
There is a revelation in nature
How does a beast nurse it's future 
generation?
Be it a vulture, wild boar, or Tasmanian Devil
Who teaches nature to sit, hungry for a day, on eggs, 
As reptiles sndcserpents do,...

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The New Ocean House, back in sixty-eight,
Worked as a busboy, left that night late.
A very dark night, dark of the moon.
Might have been May, may have been June.

I climbed on my bike, started its thunder.
Sped...

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News and lies

I read about a new type of grass keeping the reindeer 
happy and fat, this news is as far away as the military action can be, by Israel who are not willing to...

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We stood silent
in the cold wind,  
snug in the wrapped warmth
of our grandmothers thick coat, 
my sister and I,
staring into the mystery
of a freshly cut and polished 
marble headstone, the letters
spelling my grandfathers name
sounding...

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TASMANIAN DEVILS

The house next door
had flames in the windows
We watched from the street as
the firemen arrived, four rigs responding, 
Engine Company 5 – The Tasmanian Devils
Engines and ladders, axes and hoses, abundant
testosterone surrounded and entered,...

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Poetry in motion
is prose 
encapsulated in 
warring thoughts,
notions conceived 
in time oscillated 
flows,
harmonically 
shifting mental 
tides to whence 
the Tasmanian 
wind never blows,
where meditating 
and trancing 
souls,fairly prowls,
like watching the 
future in an 
ancient show,
I...

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I really think I know you, even when I'm blue
    When were full of Tasmanian oysters and too much chardonnay
    But now your'e going home alone, I'm feeling oh...

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Australia the lucky country but not for all,
It's time to tell a tale that's not so tall.
The country's past is dark and really no mystery,
Most people know the country has a black history.
Captain Cook arrived,...

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Angifi Dladla

LAST NIGHT

Last night I wasted no time;
I hovered over the mortals.
One was soft snores, the other 
a Pharaoh in stiffness.

For weeks I had been preparing 
for this up-flight! Up, up, 
through the ceiling
I defied...

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Pups, imps, joeys, wiggling tailed marsupials, hunting in parties of five.
Deadly facial cancer has killed lots of us, it’s a wonder I am still alive.
I screech when I eat, carrion, my utmost favorite food, road...

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A message to earthlings 

  Earthlings, we gave you a planet and you fouled it.
  We had high hope for you since you can reason and show empathy
  but you were overtaken...

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Boa Constrictor 

 This is turning into a diary of a slow death I had another fall
I was taking picture of some Interpretable bushes where I was
sure I had seen an animal, not unlike the...

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You don’t wanna meet Joey Fatone 
He’s a Jersey Devil
with a Tasmanian attitude

Street whispers say, 
“Baby” is a notch below
asylum certifiable

A wise guy, gator gait    bad to the bone
Known to go postal...

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Tasmania 

Wool of the sheep in Tasmania is full of soot a fire has 
destroyed the farms they belonged to. They have gone 
feral now grazing where there is any grass left… 
In a country...

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News is everywhere

I read about a new type of grass growing in Svalbard 
making the reindeer happy and fat, not that this is big news
for the polar bear that struggles to learn to live without
ice,...

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I travelled into my thoughts
To somewhere I've never been
The horrors that awaited me
Took me to our human extreme

I cried when I looked through
The windows of our past
And marvelled at what she gave us
I was left...

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Tasmanian Devil like, is how my brain does behave
But calm and peace are all that I crave

Not seeking material riches, just want internal stillness
Can be tiring intermittently fighting an invisible illness

Hard sometimes when sitting down...

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