Friday, April 23, 2010

Spring time...

... is the time for some poetry.
This first one is about a small park in Kelvin Grove, Brisbane.

Old McCaskie’s Terzanelle

March, 2007


Old McCaskie laid there mute between the noise

A clamoring construction site on one side

On the other, decibels of traffic and its voice.


Silently and still in his everlasting pride

A patch of green between the modern scene

A clamoring construction site on one side.


Over him both clear sky and trees lean

Not far away, spread out, he had his kin

Patches of green between the modern scene.


Playful youth, running and skipping on his skin

Not alone to survive the modern age

Not far away, spread out, he had his kin.


Mended and mowed each calendar page

He and his kin present their healing craft

Not alone to survive the modern age.


Between the concrete collections, a bearing raft

Old McCaskie laid there mute between the noise

He and his kin present their healing craft

By their side, decibels of traffic and its voice.



And here's one a bit more fitting the nice weather coming from Iceland this last week.

BIG BANG

March, 2010



How fiercely we kissed

As the comets came crashing

Smashing the earth to form


Your hips moved in circles

Down in the ninth

Where Virgil left us


We were messing around as

Sodoma and Gomorra burned

By the wrath of Him above


Between the raging masses

Of Cesar and Pompeii

We flirted and arrows flew


Our image turned ash

As we made rough love

Those years ago in ‘45


I handed you our child

As I plunged down through dust

The 11th of September.


You kissed me goodbye

As the eruption began

That early June in 2012



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