Seamount (NaHaiWriMo 2025, Day 16)

 

mountains rise

within the deep sea –

ancient fire

My response to the latest NaHaiWriMo prompt.

Range (NaHaiWriMo 2025, Day 15)

undulating

long blue horizon –

Border Ranges

*

swooping 

from the range two eagles

ride air currents

My response to the latest NaHaiWriMo prompt.

Pinnacle (NahaiWriMo 2025, Day 12)

 

‘Don’t climb this face,’

the locals said. ‘We’re sick

of finding bodies.’

*

seated, robed

female figure –

the east face

(I lived four years below a peak called The Pinnacle, in northern NSW, Australia.)

My response to the latest NaHaiWriMo prompt.

NAHAIWRIMO 2024 Feb 12

 

LIMA

(1)

oh, Lima! 

where the locals ate –

such warm smiles

(2)

comes to say g’day  –

Aussie nun long in Lima

hears our home accents

Week 2 of NaHaiWriMo 2023

8: ELEVENSES

time to stop

for a hard-earned cuppa —

elevenses

9: NOON:

midday pause —

a breath before afternoon’s

flattening heat

10: LUNCH

ladies who lunch –

I joined them after

widowhood

11: MIDDAY

walking away

casting no shadow —

disappearing

12: NAPTIME

my cat and me —

two old girls napping

together

13: TEATIME

hot scones, jam and cream —

not in sub-tropic summer

thanks very much!

14. AFTERNOON

afternoon rain

a hint of thunder —

don’t go out!

January micro 2023:4

 

When I have a new Tarot, I pull a card a day as a way to learn — though all Tarot is Tarot — the particular character of this one. Recently I got the Crow deck by MJ Cullinane. I love crows, and I liked the artwork: neither too realistic nor too fancy. Today I pull the 8 of Cups: a longing for something beyond the material wealth I have. (I don’t have lots of money, but I have enough of everything else for my needs, and even some emotionally sustaining non-essentials — and that is wealth to me.)

But to take a more spiritual path — what can that mean? I have followed one all my life. At the age of 83, is this a message that death is beckoning? I don’t think I’m afraid to die, but I don’t feel ready yet. And despite the inevitable ageing and slowing, I don’t think my body is at that point either. But perhaps it’s a gradual journey. (Perhaps I need to begin some preparation.)

even with wings

ascending a mountain

must take time?

*

alone except for my cat

I put on the big blue earrings

(deep blue and white, like pottery)

which Angela gave me one birthday

– dressing up for myself

*

night owl texting –

certain friends know

who else roams the dark