Spring storm ...

Spring storm –

the street I live in

altered

13/10/26

Senryu Sundays

Aussie poet Rallentanda has begun offering Senryu Sundays at her blog. I hope to join in a lot! And I plan to post mine here too, in monthly groupings updated weekly. (Only two Sundays left in September. Here's mine for 26th Sept; do check the prompts, and links to others in the comments there!)

at last, warmth

I sit outdoors –

mosquito!

20/9/26

Small Ironies (March '26)

 

‘What’s an Australian poet 

anyway?’ he scoffed. 

I almost answered: ‘You’re sitting 

next to one.’ But I was only 

his old aunty. I kept mum.

15/3/26

My peacock feathers will insist

on leaning too far sideways

out of the vase where I stood them –

to brush the feet of pictured Isis

and curl in a reverential fan

over the head of my statue of Thoth.

17/3/26

Taking Note (March '26)

silently

my cat walks through

lamplight

4/3/26

news of the world –

rising fear churns in me

and spills over

8/3/26

this old photo –

the me you never knew

11/3/26

dear old cat

more and more

sleeps

12/3/26

days of rain

then too much heat – escape 

lies indoors

12/3/26

Northern Rivers autumn –

the time of tiny geckos

13/3/26

online class cutting lino 

in little fish shapes – why?

15/3/26

looking back

more often now than forward –

am I at last old?

18/3/26

late light

sky fades to white –

sharp-edged hills

28/3/26

so sudden – 

this day long awaited

31/3/26

NaHaiWtiMo 2026 Week 4 Celestial / Vastness

 

22. SOLSTICE

we witches

dance in circle –

the year turns

23. NEBULA

reading Just Kids …

contemplating coloured clouds

in outer space 

24. ECLIPSE

eclipse –

along with the dark

silence

25. ZENITH

the sun

at its height, and I

sinking

26. AURORA

cold childhood nights –

woken to see those flashes

of eerie green

(I grew up in Launceston, Tasmania, where the 

Aurora Australis was occasionally, though rarely, 

visible, and my parents insisted I must view it.)

27. TIDE

a sunny day –

on the outgoing tide

my friend’s ashes

28. HORIZON

far over the sea

or drawn close by the mountains –

the same horizon?

*

(1)

always

further to travel –

frustration!

(2)

still

further to travel –

such a comfort!

(3)

again

further to travel –

inspiring!

(I don’t mean for readers to choose a 

favourite of these. They are intended as a 

sequence: contradictory perhaps, yet all valid.)

*

moonlight on water 

bridging the horizon –

a beckoning path