Gazing down at him from my window
as he wanders around the garden
playing with the white cat, casting
furtive glances all around until finally
he glances up at me with a loving smile.
Caught in a corner, leaning my cheek
against the wall, I would happily
sit there and watch him all day
while the world meanders past tugging
at my attention sometimes [...]
Archive for May, 2007
A kiss blown off course
Posted in Love on May 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Freedom of choice
Posted in Life on May 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I chose this life.
I found this place we live in.
I asked for the job I work at.
I created these things around me.
I made friends of the people I care about.
No one did it for me.
No one else made decisions about my options.
I chose this life.
By the freedom of my actions it is rich.
Though by the [...]
Boy time
Posted in Children on May 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
My hours are filled with duty.
My days are diary bound.
The pressure of a week
is like a clock that’s over wound.
So much I should be doing
if the time could just be found.
But a little boy has nothing more to do with his week
Than climb down the redbank and paddle in the creek.
He’s time to poke at [...]
For love of a rose
Posted in Love on May 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
She no longer weeps on the mornings after
the scent wraps its shawl round her shoulders and throat.
The scent of dark roses he sends to console her
for each of the evenings he’s touched someone else.
Gladly she gathers them from ribbon and cellophane
bare fingered clutching their sharp thorned stems.
Buries her face in their red velvet petals
so soft [...]
For Daniel
Posted in Death on May 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Alive we cannot unknow knowledge
yet with death it’s all wiped clean.
To enable us all to start afresh
without memory of what has been.
I find it hard to believe in an angel’s
Heaven where all our souls unite, nor
can I believe in an endless hell that punishes
those who didn’t do right
The life force cannot just disappear -
how can [...]
