Sleep Waking On A Rocky Riverbed Poem by Terence George Craddock

still a few warm memories endure
sleep waking on a rocky riverbed
summertime alone where slept
without need tent shelter in sleeping
bag in ground sheet spread on ground
found small stretched out body space
after clear summer night all night

trying to stay awake to watch stars
slow time seconds minutes changeless
move across dark night sky in star blaze
constellations hours spent throughout
night dozing off to watch frozen time
so slow slow stars shift in sky waking
to star changes finally waking to late

morning warm starlight not a single wild
creature disturbed my star quest night
not a single creature morning moves
buzzes this dry riverbed space a gusting
creek rapid flows twenty to twenty-five
metres from my riverbed slept space
and I wake refreshed to in a few days

time to make a new overseas journey


Terence George Craddock (Afterglows Echoes Of Starlight)
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