brain enters shut down
as greyness takes over the sky
reboots with wellies
Before the shortest day [Southern_hemisphere]
Saving a marsupial [Sculpture]
plastic empathy
with silicone sympathy
this stuff has a heart
‘The rescuers’ by Patricia Piccinini, 2021, on display at SAM –
Shepparton Art Museum
Undercurrent
murray river flows
rippling broadly as a smile
whilst snagging toes
An even more sombre third line might be ‘whilst taking souls’. For example, of thousands of US and Australian airmen trained to be paratroopers, or to fly B24 Liberators etc. in WWII, there were more casualties from swimming in the Murray than from flying, firearms training or parachuting accidents. Beware of snags indeed.
A view of Lake Mulwala
‘ man’s enduring flood
dead forest of rotted gums
eerie overlay
‘ man ~> human
Lake Mulwala on the Murray river was created in 1939 to provide water for irrigating the Hume region of Victoria and Riverina region of New South Wales. Remnants of the flooded forest remain, adding an eerie aspect to the otherwise beautiful lake.
Caw, it’s the sound of happy crows
happy vrarking sound
an amusement of blithe crows
no bloody murder
Nature’s escrow
brown leather-look leaves
a leisurely treasury
of mulch for later
The prospect of winter
as autumn closes
nature’s beauty draws soft sighs
wishing to return
Not waving; warning
branches wave like friends
flailing stormy colours flare
legs flash before rain
Reading the raindrops [Southern Hemisphere]
gleaming soft rainfall
sensing fall’s swift denouement
hopes to hang around
Granted an autumn wish
so is this a dell
this slope of alluring beauty
or do I wish well
The blue sky optimists
Don’t these pretties know?
Winter knocks on Melbourne’s door.
Huh! Let there joy be!
(oxalis purpurea)
Shiraz
faded fake persian
real colour is red wine spill
undetectable
– almost undetectable
Shiraz Persian rugs are made in villages around the city of Shiraz in Iran. The rug in this picture is no shiraz – but it contains the remnants of a fine bottle of South Australian Shiraz red wine.
Sweet swinging sounds
shot sounds great
magpie where’s my ball
at divots end
look at your feet duffer!
What should I play?
an hour on the phone
simple banking inquiry
>> Play ‘Live–Evil’ LOUD!
The ‘Oh no!’ zone
conjure me cauldrons
shakespeare’s witches’ floating hair
climactic changes
Cosmetic brain surgery
elon_gate your mind
plug a new chip into brain
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Inspired by Bartholomew Barker
Poetectomy
A maple tree prepares for winter
blue sky shines right through
where once thick leaves looked so warm
nature shows cool side
The start of a good day
gilded silhouettes
sketched out by the morning sun
divine day’s essence
Looking north from the pedestrian bridge over Springvale rail lines
eastern dragons fly
on the breath of rising sun
portentous shade cast
Pink tutus
swaying filaments
dipping with twinkling dew drops
create pas de deux
Surrender
red leaves fall then curl
like hands formed to bless earth
reveal life purpose
Leaf senescence is a complex degenerative process in which the constituents of cells are broken down in order to be stored away and subsequently accessed to support growth.
A teardrop salute
maintain attention
until humanity mends
such brutally
Sweetwater creek nature reserve (suburban idyll)
sweetwater creek road
boulevard of promised dreams
fullfilled by reserve
No branding, by request
What are your favorite brands and why?
No branding, by request [Limerick]
Inanimately yours…
freudian objects
send me love and other things
sing to me their songs
My portable digital radio is on the frizz. This verse was inspired by extending Freudian object relations theory and stands in stark contrast to the universal life force theory that inspired the recent post ‘With Ingenuity’.
davidwdon 
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