Short Marram Poems

Kisses from the night,
Greet the awaited sunrays:
Glistening beachscape....

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She doesn’t wear shoes in the summer.

    She likes the way the ground feels

    In the creases of her curled up toes


    She hooks them into the sand

    Beneath the marram grass

    And stands

    An arrow pointing to the sun


    The wind runs a wrinkled hand through her hair

    And I watch her from the path

    Feet pushing five inch spears

    Into the rocky ground....

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September sun setting low,
Fall in all its golden glow;
Anticyclones hold transient sway
As mist forms ,at the close of day.

Dogwood,jasmine,marram grass
In flower ,as pressure fills the barometer glass;
Evening primrose in scented bloom
Fill Autumn with  pungent perfume.

Winter migrants with welcome calls
As the Indian Summer falters,and falls;
Nature's tempo tarries,then slows 
As all creation begins to doze....

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You Wishing

You
on the spring shore
where waves applaud on sand
where marram grass resists 
Here lives the coldest  wind
and no one else is there but you 
Staying to watch 
with arms braced 
watching a world 
drown then reborn
You
imagining
devising the improbable
you 
silent
wishing the impossible
you 
with cold fingers gracefully
cupping an orchid
in hope, in soft hope
silent words
falling from your lips...

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the sand creeps
sand dunes grow... gaining ground
marram holds all together

desert mountains... dunes
imperceptible movers
yet always growing

on a windy day
a mile long sandy beach
not a place to be

sandy beaches
here one day... gone the next
hungry oceans

ripples in the sand
saltating grains form ripples
sand dunes nurseries

creatures of the sand
reptiles... insects... birds... mammals
oasis wildlife...

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