Free verse

Non-rhyming poetry with no specific meter

  • Impression

    Memories whisper to the wind.
    Gossamer remnants gentled and sifted
    in timeless, endless eddies.
    Lightly drifting
    settling softly on they, we, me.


    Do you hear them?

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  • Thread

    an unexpected fragrance
    sudden on the autumn night air
    warm paraffin
    memory of a candle
    somewhere
    flaring bright

    time briefly wobbles
    and is gone

    with the scent of nostalgia

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  • Ode to Coffee

    inhaling, savouring
    sweet prophylactic bitterness
    sharpening
    the corners of the mind
    bracing the soggy edges
    of a coddled ego
    inoculating
    against the rigours
    of the day to come

    even decaf yes
    (no hate)

    our ptisan
    for the world-weary brain

    Cullen Bay, Darwin

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  • The Space Between

    Even in silence 
    there is a rhythm 

    those moments 
    between 
    then 

    and then 

    and then 

    when the world just quietly waits 
    for the next 
    beat 

    everything simply being 
    in perfect stillness 

    even me 
     


    and my heart is full 

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  • Circle Dance

    curbside drift
    of autumn leaves
    edges
    dancing in the sun
    tuned to light-of-heart
    breeze, like
    the lace
    of mother’s skirt
    at her daughter’s
    wedding

    Gurwood Street, Wagga Wagga
    
    

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  • Connected

    My heart is lonely tonight
    yearning to enfold and be enfolded
    in the warm, peaceful, embrace
    of fellow love 

    In the soft of night
    I feel for those threads
    delicately spanning the world

    One soul connected to another
    and another

    lighting, lightening all hearts
    and winding back again
    to me 
    in my warm cocoon…

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  • Fleeting, More Beautiful

    Caught by a rainbow,
    sparkling eyes hoard the fading moment.
    Ah, that one time!

    Wollundry Lagoon, Wagga Wagga

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  • (Missing?)(Lost)

    the sum of me is the weight
    of a thousand memories

    alter or remove just one
    I become
    no longer me

    sometimes I fear 
    this might be true

    sometimes I hope

    fine grains of

              salt
                   dissolving       in an ocean

                               diluted
                                                                        lost

         redesigned?

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  • Hope Framed

    In gilded frame a tropical sunset
    reflection of the joyous radiance
    of a freshly shining couple

    Not a lie – not exactly

    But she is already broken, he
    a victim to belief
    that love can heal all

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