The desert
Is simply
A ten thousand year
Drought
Is simply
A ten thousand year
Drought
Category: Landscape
Subtle lovers
We are subtle lovers
The rain and I
The rain and I
I suppose that is the way
Of rainforest life
I hanker for the sun
Complain about the wet
But it exhausts me
when the sun stays too long
Tnorala Escape
In a land rife
With enigma and anomaly
Emu and Uluru
Kangaroo and Kata Tjuta
With enigma and anomaly
Emu and Uluru
Kangaroo and Kata Tjuta
Tnorala rises
From a wide, flat plain
Dug out by a shooting star
Which fell to earth
Visibility
Were there no eyes to see
Would there still be
A universe to see
Would there still be
A universe to see
If the bumblebee
Could do science
What world would its textbooks see
Risking the avalanche
Green circles for beginners
Blue squares for intermediates
Black diamonds for experts
Double blacks for extreme
Blue squares for intermediates
Black diamonds for experts
Double blacks for extreme
Wouldn’t it be nice
If the paths we could take in life
Were marked like ski runs
We live on the edge of a moving precipice
I love the chutzpah of communities
Which plunk themselves down on the edge of a continent
That the sea has been ferociously taking back
Since the land was born
Questions of Utility
One wonders if
A pair of forlorn-looking picnic tables
Actually prefer the cool grey wet of an Autumn day
The quiet restfulness of the off-season
A pair of forlorn-looking picnic tables
Actually prefer the cool grey wet of an Autumn day
The quiet restfulness of the off-season
Boxes & Triangles
Little boxes and triangles
Plunked down
And anchored
Plunked down
And anchored
In a landscape
Buffeted by winds
Battered by waves
The land and flora
Shaped, shattered,
Broken and splintered
A geological child
I think of this canyon
As old
Until I reflect
And recall
As old
Until I reflect
And recall
The sandstone
Began to rise
Some 200 million
Years ago
Leaving the water to carve
An infant, a toddler
The geological child
Of a mother, Earth, 4 billion years old
Vibrant Color
Vibrant colour
Is nature’s most ecstatic expression
Of beauty
Is nature’s most ecstatic expression
Of beauty
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