Above stood fire with wings Watchers with covered eyes Bodiless yet shame-shrouded Sent fleet across the sky Glory and the smell of lightning And I, my mouth full of salt Gazing on the polished stone Of a silk-purple draped palace Pleading at the threshold No heed for the crystal sphere Already emptied from pockets Stomach [...]
Tag Archives | Fire
NIGHTFALL IN MEDLOW BATH
(1)My first Blue Mountains journeys were on Sydney’s country trains, With scenery improving, once I’d gone past Emu Plains. I did not know the passengers around me, but perhaps one Might care to play a card game, since we’d only come to Lapstone (2)I closed my vintage fiction novel fast. So I could then look, [...]
Autumn
Autumn has arrived. Trees decked out in Joseph’s coat Reds, yellows, orange, rust, green And every hue in between. Leaves dancing and fluttering in the wind Drop to earth In a dizzy spin. This wonderful display Is short lived. Winters winds will soon move in, Earth takes on a Different glow With the arrival of [...]
“Save the Pheasants”
The pheasants are starving in four foot af snow! With Northerners blowing, at twenty below! Out there in the Soil Bank, wher snowdrifts are deep. The pheasants are lying, for- ever to sleep! The news came from Washington, right from the wire- “Feed-the-poor-pheasants!” like a prairie on fire! John found a pheasant, its last strength [...]
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