A Cold wind blows down Collins Street
A pale sun struggles through the cloud
Business executives, smartly dressed, stride past,
Mobile phones firmly clamped to ears.
A rolle... Read More
I’m not much good at praying
In words I’ve learnt by rote
For angels, saints and heaven
Seem, so far and so remote.
When I need inspiration
No matter what the hour
... Read More
The evening sky is brushed by angels’ wings
In strokes of palest pink and deepest grey
The setting sun dips down
Releasing fiery shafts
That tip the feathered clouds
With bur... Read More
Lorikeets are chattering in my golden tree
Scattering the opposition
Diving dizzily into cups of nectar
Performing feats of acrobatic brilliance
On dangerous swaying branches.
Just... Read More
You're lying face down on the floor
Surrounded by your crimson gore
you thing for sure your nose is broke
Could be now's the time to croak.
How could this have come ... Read More
It’s said that love is only for the young
That fires lit in spring and summer
Flare into white-hot incandescence.
But we have lived three seasons in our love.
Now in the autumn our flame bur... Read More
We laid him down to rest last week
The old man of ninety five
Mighty calm he was about his dying
Called for the priest
And made his peace with God
As if God had ever been at war with him.
I sat ... Read More
Most of us were sweet sixteen
Some fifty years ago.
All starry eyed and dreaming dreams
And hearts with fire aglow.
We’d seek our fame and fortune too
The world would be our oyster
But one... Read More
Praise be to God for shady trees
For sun and sand and pounding seas
For lakes that lie so calm and still
And clouds that gather on a hill
Praise be to God for yellow flowers
And cl... Read More
I dreamed of the old home again last night
With the picket fence all painted white
And the frangipani tree so tall
That we planted there when our child was small.
I went through the house so silen... Read More