The Sunset

The golden sun was sinking in the West,

And as it did so its brilliant colours glared in the eyes of a little child.

Comfort

Lord for the future though unknown

I cannot be afraid

For Thou hast promised all Thine own

Thine all-sufficient aid

Betty Eleanor Towns

Season for Joy

It’s a season for joy

For spirits raised high!

The end of the year 

Is very close by!

The Lady

She watches the tiny birds

As they forage on the ground
And chirp up in their trees
The most glorious of sounds

My Family

My family are gold

A ring that makes me complete

Sugar with pancakes 

Like a small warm breeze

What's in a Rainbow?

I look at a rainbow

And what can I see?

The butter-gold sun

And a honey-filled bee

The Spring!

Joy! The Winter's nearly gone

Soon will Spring come dancing on

And before her here dance I

Pink like sunrise in the sky!

Pray Thyself In Me

“Lord, I know not what I ought to ask Thee;

Thou only knowest what I need;

Thou lovest me better than I know how to love myself.

David the Fallen

Many were his foes

Of David, a song

For his life, like a flea

Fled from Absalom

My Great Prayer

The morning bright

With rosy light,

Shall wake me from my sleep.

My Lord and My Rod

When grief like a flood engulfs me as I pray

When dark doubts like waves rock my soul

Whatever my lot thou hast taught me to say

I am yours, you are God, my own goal

Cords of Death

The cords of death entangled

Destruction overwhelmed

The snares of death confronted

The coiling grave compelled

Happy Everlife

Happy Birthday Mum

Greatest of all mothers

You carried me in your tum

My sister and brothers

O Happy Life

O happy one walking

Not in godless plans

Lest their paths standing

Where scoffer he bands

The Defaming of Sméagol

In a boat above the dank

Sits a small young Déagol

From a hole under the bank

Leaps his dear cousin Sméagol

Chords of Life

Sing this in song

David the servant

To One who is strong

To music be fervent

Unwakened Trees

Bottoms are up

Heads in the ground

As sleepish trees

Unwake surround

Entish Wake

Trees be wreathe

Lungs reach out

Wind pipe up

Trunk stand doubt

Missessary Journey

Myopic mind has lost its sight

This cranium is out of fight

The world once mine has been upended

A minitude of life pretended

Bemeaning

It’s a wild day for bad weather

A dark day for the rain

It’s a black day for night time

I can’t keep things just the same

De Day A Way

What’s this date today

A day you do de side?

A date for me to stay

Away a way to hide?

All that is Old

All that is gold does not glitter

Nor should all who falter be tossed

If Only I had a Mane

I could whittle away the hours

Under sky without those clowers

Conferring with the twigs and

Talking to the gum trees leaves

Vote for the Beans

Don’t vote with your feet

Or vote with your thumb

Vote with your mouth

It ain’t mute or dumb

Plague of Meat

We’re a nation crying out

Feed me or I’ll die

I need meat just to live

Give it raw for me to fry

Dependantrees

Conjoined twins

Compete to be

Free with space

Breathe and see

Winterlude

Some Winterlude is this

Of pale moonight

Farsighted but empty

No warmth in the fight

Is a Bella

Beautiful daughter

Buzzing Bee

Golden hair

Bouncing free

No Night Left

Highway left

That road lead right

Not clearly I see

Through lonely night

Standoubt

Breathe be wreathe

Lungs reach out

Wind pipe up

Trunk stand doubt

Upended

Bottoms are up

Heads in the ground
Asleep like a tree
No waking surround

Lost Ent

When Spirit unfolds the Scripture-leaf 

And sap is in the bough

Blowey Grey

Sammy strong

Loves to play

Dolphin’s song

Yellow and gay

Lain Aside

I may look bright

Deep scarlet red

But the colour is blood

Bruised from the head

A Winton House

Tim Winton’s

Cloudstreet

That Eye The Sky

Cold feet

The Last Hour

It’s eleven o’clock

And the end of all things

The battle now short

My wound it stings

Silverless Birch

Birchling seed

Naively lands

A cosy crack

Sprouts, expands

My Mother

You remind me of a blue wren

So small and delicate

At home among your garden

So perfect and content

Leaf Bereft

Toppled by a breeze

All bloods now drained

A deadening freeze

Pale colour stained

Becoming Less

Like Galadriel

Ill-fated fair

Is stripped of pride

With humbling care

Dying Deed

Unless like seed

We fall, it dies

Aground sown deed

We found r’own lives

Dad the Dag

Daggy clothes

Saggy tees

Baggy jeans

Worny keens

What Amiss

Went what amiss

Out of the door?

What missing piece

Of lure and lore?

Unfading Beauty

Gentle and quiet

My spirit at rest

Submissive, silent

Your treasure chest

Beauty Amid the Sorrow

There is beauty amid my sorrow

There is mercy in my tears

There is meaning in the madness

There is grace within the years

Yellow Goodbye

Why do the brightest days

End so cold?

Why the clearest skies

Which were so bold?

Just a Little Note

"Whenever you’re feeling

"Sad and blue

"Remember this note that says

I love you"

Beautiful Feet

Popsicle toes

Havaianas

Painted rose

Red sultanas

Over Indulger

Hotmail soldier

Off to Kapooka

Jumping boulder

Just a teenager

All To Share

Simon from Cyrene

A father two sons

Alexander and Rufus

A journey begun 

Don't Go Out Tonight

An amber horizon

Do not proceed

A bad mood heighten

Please you must heed