Melinda J. Irvine is an Australian copywriter, poet and blogger living between the Philippines and Australia. Mel is an adopted mum to Jerry, a little boy she met in 2015 while volunteering after Typhoon Yolanda. All the money she earns as a copywriter and from this website, get her one step closer to legally adopting Jerry plus helping other disadvantaged kids go to school.
dirty old swamp
transformed
to a mirror
i ran little in you once
long before the rain
came
dark green river grass
flower filled stamens
and tangled paperbarks.
now sunset
fragments
sparkling
stagnant water
decaying
long rotting log
lumpy water
i found my bridge and reached it
will you?
© 2015 Melinda Irvine
