Nothing is
certain in
this world
except death,
taxes, and the
absolute
certainty that
when things
seem to be
going well,
somewhere
on the planet,
religion will
bugger it up.
Category: poetry
With muffled drum
I wasn’t fond
of Notre Dame
as a building –
give me Chartres
any day – but so
sad to see all
that history
burning savagely.
But seriously,
grown men worked
there who believed
they had the
“Crown of thorns”?
Wheels within wheels
Strangely
comforting
to see small
birds hunting
big eagles
instead of
the other
way round
Need more time
Two Spinebills
chasing each
other through
the Salvia flowers,
trying to evolve
into Australian
hummingbirds
Balance
Can’t decide
if the pleasure
of finding that
someone older
than you is
still alive
outweighs the
finding that
someone younger
than you is
now dead.
Without a trace
Anxiety
soaks up
mental
energy
like dry sand
soaks up
water
Elegant sufficiency
What need
have I of
great riches?
I am
content.
Photographic memories
The young people,
whose photos
appear in
family albums,
somehow turn
into old people
looking wistfully
at those photos.
Fly so high
Sometimes one
bird sits on top
of the statue
and sometimes
it’s another.
Much like our
politics.
Fox in the hen house
Murdoch’s
strategy
ensures that
millions of
ignorant fools
are happy,
nay, delighted,
to be led by
ignorant fools.
