I live a life of
1 to three
and lost a man
who then was me
to slowly grow
and flowing know
the height and depth
and breath sum show
I live a life of
1 to three
and lost a man
who then was me
to slowly grow
and flowing know
the height and depth
and breath sum show
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This is early on a deep winter morning in Byron Bay. The temperature had fallen all the way down to 12 degrees centigrade but this green tree frog found my outdoor spa just the perfect thing to maintain a comfortable balance by dipping his bum into 37 degrees and hanging onto the lid to prevent the formation of frog soup.
We happily shared the spa for about a week until winter had moved on and then so did the frog.
Posted in environmental, photography | Tags: frog in a spa, the soggy bottom boy, too green to be cool
Play tag with real intentions
pass along a tender gesture
then consumate each contact
with a point of honest praise
What may come back from this gamble
is respect and understanding
as evolving players ramble
through a changeling maze all tread
Swirling honour eager healing
pealing layers from the ceiling
moving walls and clearing floorboards
in the chambers of our minds
Feel each fiercely searing instant
every wild erratic flicker
as you touch that fickle portion
of the point where I sees we
Will an ego rise to lash out
at the search to learn and know you
polish shape our small creations
in this craft so wracked with gain
Show fresh fables we alone know
novel secrets unalone now
of those times so recent distant
when we walked in splendour gone
Can your open reason hold me
graceful listen ideas glisten
then to glide toward tomorrow
and enfold that warmth with thought
Sheer mutual treasure near physical pleasure
fear joy and illusion of marvels and fusion
await now the daring
who venture themselves
This trickle flows slow clear vivacious as crystal
enriching each lover increasing all givers
while nameless sad faces race
hating their fear
The intelligence displayed here is almost unfathomable but I suspect that no accident caused this spider to wait on top of a beacon that attracts prey insects.
I took a couple of dozen photos and then left the hunter waiting for the hunted and I never saw this again.
If the photo is enlarged it is possible to see light shining through the spider to give a virtual x-ray.
Robert
Posted in found objects, photography | Tags: enlightened spider, spider enlightenment
Posted in jigsaw, poetry | Tags: Reality Rules
This was the closest I ever came to a crow. They are very suspicious but after about two months of gentle feeding this crow became bold enough to walk right across the top of my spa. He was not comfortable if I made eye contact yet seemed quite oblivious to my camera so I watched the crow watching me through the screen on the back of my camera.
Robert
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Life once gained is fragile and perilous
Who flout the laws of nature
question our continued existence
Fleas
From this scattered jumble
of past places ideas wander
to a history of our nature
an alternate look at life
We all hear a different piper
see a separate stately message
as we wend our puzzled passage
through this changling maze called time
A we think and taste and touch it
take a nervous nibble quickly
we must follow what we did before
to get to where we go
Every portion is a gamble
to find marvels all should ramble
with some luck and balanced planning
live to taste the lotus bloom
As we seek evasive answers
look about and try to open
every tiny perfect puzzle
of this planet we infest
Please consider logic’s lesson
to step light upon existence
careless leaching users vanish
if they kill their only host.
Posted in environmental, poetry | Tags: Fleas
We are separated from the teeming existers by our knowledge of yesterday and belief in tomorrow
To Think
I am therefore I think I know
I know therefore I think I am
I am therefore I know I think
I think I am therefore I know
I know I am therefore I think
I think therefore I know I am
None deny each glad occasion
when the clown steps out from in us
painted angry smile covering all fear
wanton vision of our nature
further reason different version
we may learn so much from laughter
if time grants us age to think
I’m so tired of sly knockers
sallow jacket night sunglasses
languid conduct of the lizard
callow shallow hollow manners
vapid quip to snipe and slander
every time you spy a notion
of the finer points of life
Never rhyme or read nor wonder
with you ego is the center
yet proud words lie second best
as this clever space provided
by the novel and insightful
displays your sceptic basis
slanted glance at life so dim
You may dance and sing or caper
gaily jape and daily paper over
every tiny aspect of your life and how you live
while you do that keep to yourself
venal views and jealous brickbats
as you struggle with who you are
please leave me and mine to us
Why do we stand before you
with such a fateful risk
We stand up front to greet you
and give voice to all of this
We stand before you knowing
as those who have before
Stood before you hoping
to let you know the score
There is very little peril
for the novice to take here
Such a vague self conjured terror
yet how many feel that fear
In a world of gentle banners
a person may reveal
Open minds and moral manners
their perception of the real
And if that view confronts you
can you take the step
As if that view confounds you
the need may be to stretch
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