Wind-road marked in swirls of blue-grey cloud Fluffed up water feathers wing through faded blue Splinters light to shards of red and gold This canvas of the earth This glory of creation at day’s end This hand of God
The Wind Road
Wind-road marked in swirls of blue-grey cloud Fluffed up water feathers wing through faded blue Splinters light to shards of red and gold This canvas of the earth This glory of creation at day’s end This hand of God
Sky meets horizon and reflects in the still water two suns, two sets of drifting cloud white to yellow, then red to purple and blue doubled, radiating above and below Let us enter the boat and drift across the sea surrounded by colour and light until we do not know whether we sail the water…
When I see a rainbow halo around the setting moon I like to think that God is playing with His paint box drawing circles of colours to delight His creation Like when I see long streaks of cloud on a sunny day He is finger painting across the sky When sun sets through cloud all…
Bitonal bird sits on a fence preens sleek black and white feathers Magpie chorus heralds the close of the day sun going down and the changing of the guard Day shift of birds and all the sunlight creatures return to their nests while the night dwellers emerge Possums get restive run across the roof tops…
Lying on the grass Basking in the golden light of a setting sun Body might be old, but the soul is forever young Smell of grass and earth, flowers and all the clues the wind gives watch the butterflies landing on the flowers, dancing their brief lives Chase them in your head, though your body…