HER MAJESTY
HER MAJESTY The tickledness of joy giggles within Innocent joy bubbles and ripples The flowers watching on unfold more Upon the early summer verandah That deep yearning for yet uninvented words For to technicolour your vision Sea green leaves...
THE UNEXPLAINABLE EXPLAINED – by Robyn Catchlove
Oh.....oh.....oh The breathtaking, the mezmerising, the mystical, the..... the...... the.... everything The middle dark night sky’s lightening show And shockingly silent toooooo, Nary a sound thundering, But.....but...... but..... golden pink indescribable Simply...
Emerging – by Robyn Catchlove
The man’s nature seeps through As the rhythm quickens The shaft of music comes on strong Responding seems anything but wrong Taking more care now He, Quizzical, sea shell hearing Fast talking, straight ‘nd strong Brick moustache, cheshire smile Survives by...
A Mother’s Love —Robyn Catchlove
Loves live light Intangible to touch Full of feeling Hidden within Seen from the outside Watch now, close your eyes See a mother cradling her own Close your eyes, look now What words? Profoundly unceasing? Dwelling deepness? Oh such labyrinth love, We can only wander...
THE BORDERLESS SHELTER—by Robyn Catchlove
It was early last Sunday morning. Up in North Sydney, I was driving with some or other destination in mind. Such a day was brewing, all filled with the bright, exciting wildness of a dark clouded raining storm, that’s what was coming. Fleetingly, something called...
Poetic Reflections on Aussie Paradise
AUSSIE PARADISE TIS Crafty gull of the sea surfing the wind Invisible roars waving at the shore Pure suds of bubble white Surfers aboard on the silverness of ocean She, incomprehensible Sand glistening cool into our bare soles The dimensionless blue brushing our...
In Ruby’s World—God Goes Everywhere
God goes everywhere. Maybe it was a vinegar stroke, certainly a masterstroke when He came to God’s Own Country. First Queensland, then the rest, not resting till He had initiated the faithful Vegemites into the right dream, The Great Australian Dream. Cellular...
Two Catchy Poems
INTRINSIC LACE In the mornings it was always clear The beautiful shyness would reappear Together travelled gently, probing the ways That resulted from their prior days Cocoon-like internal universe was in place All wrapped up in intrinsic lace Of their own...
Three Poems from Robin Catchlove
I INSIST, IT MUST BE Please. I insist. Our souls, our chi, our energy must be Aglow, alight, asaturate of vibrancy The primordial rainbow five Of Earth, Water, Fire, Metal and Space That’s scorching yellow, vividness blue, searingly red, Glisteningest green,...
SHE—REFLECTIONS ON JOY
The tickledness of joy giggles within Innocent bliss bubbles and ripples The flowers watching on unfold more Upon the early summer verandahness That deep yearning for yet uninvented words For to technicolour your vision Sea green leaves a’splash with mirror silver...
Reflections on Suffering
If my tears, if only that Could cleanse all the harm done Of all those who have, are or will suffer If only my voice, if only that Could caress away all the hurt done Of all those who have, are or will suffer If only my jokes, if only that Could forgive...