A outplaced Yank finding my heart and home in Australia. My days are filled with the bush (all 160 acres of it) , the alpacas, the horses, the dogs, the chooks - and the peacocks. I have written poetry all my life, but being unemployed (temporarily I hope) has given me the chance to cast my rhymes to the greater wind, and see what cyclones it arouses.
It is the black smoke rising
Oozing through shuttered windows
seeping into quiet corners
Blocking the heart from
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A dark moon rising
mirrors despair upon the lake.
Black covers the waves,
smothering the winter light.
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