When everyone ran, you remained the grim landscape the same colour as your dress and quiet genius as bushfires licked your garters you laughed that same laugh for decades. Old years pass and turn though just your slip remains you…
Tag: Australian Bush
Jerry opens Faunaverse
Faunaverse is a marvellous book of poetry appealing to both kids and adults. Fun educational and inspiring, Faunaverse was written by two passionate and talented environmental activists (and also my friends): Alexander Dudley and Jane Sullivan.
Morning and Mist
early driving sun behind wet mist and dew filled cobwebs. rough bush stop. © 2015 Melinda Irvine
Lemon Tree Flats
driving to the lemon tree flats i am a passenger for the first time in months (maybe longer) laughing more than my body can remember i sit in back while we stop for lizards lizards with beards and long tails…
Black Rock Swamp
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…
Death in the Open Grasslands
death comes as a shock startling and sudden my morose curiosity a sadness a lament for a lifeless form © 2015 Mel Irvine
Blencoe Falls on the Kirrama Range Road
Leaving Mission Beach to the wet season was a great opportunity to cut across the Kirrama Range Road which has been closed for many years and visit Blencoe Falls. A stunning late summer morning after a recent (much-needed) deluge and…