POETRY 1


THE FOOTPRINTS

The car parts
protruding from the sand
will outlast
my transient footprints,
but the sea
will take them all.

Published in "Tribe" magazine issue 10, November 1999
R557-31




THE PLEA OF A LONELY GODDESS

Where are the warriors?
Where are the Men?
Did they all die on the fields of war?
I write an ode to SNAGS*,
whose hearts have seen a golden path
to the future
and in honesty and love they follow,
but they leave their balls behind.
I write a requiem to the Bad Boys,
whose passion and fire are undeniable
behind the guns and the wheels,
the electric guitars and the prison bars,
but whose courage fails
at the first whiff of the Goddess.
The Men were all gone when I was born;
will they not return until after I have gone?

_______12.2.99 Byron Bay, NSW_______

(* Sensitive New Age Guys)



Mirror, mirror on the wall,
who is the clearest of them all?

_______17.1.99_______


The Hunter who never stands still
cannot make a kill.

_______17.1.99_______



BUSH DOOF

initiation by Dr. Mud
doof doof doof doof!

now the canine contingent arrives
woof woof woof woof!

pity the old god Pan's not here....
oh! but he is!
the energy that shakes us all
must surely be his

I watch my dancing shadow
as if with other eyes
then charged and primed go out again
to flirt with younger guys

since Gandalf only Nic can
blow smoke rings like that
and his fluorescent purple smile
turns him into a Cheshire cat
doof doof doof woof woof woof!

_______10.1.99 Koonyum, NSW_______