Better Than Having Nothing To Say
...I begin again
on the same path I take every day,
past the familiar fences, hedges
and duck under the same
sag of overhanging trees.
Past the house
with the sociopathic dog,
the cottage st...
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Categories:
weatherboard, muse, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Today I Am the Lucky One
...Light green leaves, wineberries on brown stems grow in New Zealand's native bush
Sally drinks a glass of red wine each night laughing
Forest of tall trees awesome in their backyard
The mystery bey...
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Categories:
weatherboard, appreciation, beauty, home, nature,
Form: Free verse
Night Across the Pond
...Then crept night across the pond
Casting shadows on greying
Weatherboard; like sullen ghosts
Those leafless talons grasping
Stretching like dying fibrous fingers
Still the pond chilled and trapp...
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Categories:
weatherboard, dark, night,
Form: Free verse
Faded Photograph
...I’ve always been restless since I was a kid,
to settle near drives me insane.
I’ll just throw together the best that I can
what I own and be gone again.
Boxes long packed I had stacked in a she...
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Categories:
weatherboard, memory, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Blowfly Bert the Bowerbird
...Get the barby firing, put on the ready meat
have the odour wafting through houses in the street;
someone half a mile away, puts his nose in the air,
goes hell-bent on a bloodhound scent to get ove...
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Categories:
weatherboard, character, satire,
Form: Rhyme
The Sundial
...Sundial
My passion is the silent weather vane
The gambrel brought such sorrow
Much I marveled this roughcast cairn
Eagerly I looked for the lintel
I have dreamed of the clocks
Eag...
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Categories:
weatherboard, adventure, analogy, time,
Form: Free verse
Two Greatest Commandments
...37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love yo...
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Categories:
weatherboard, allegory, analogy, religious,
Form: Limerick
Honey's Light, Gold and Mahogany - Home
...Dad looking at that weatherboard house, Old Tooters home,
A thrifty man.. us to him did his brother send,
Saying that the place could do with a mend;
The roof had red patches of pitted rust, the cost...
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Categories:
weatherboard, family, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Prose Poetry