Silent

Silent heart-

This wall clock

Of the New Year.

Grevillea

Grevillea-
First flower,
First bird.

patience!

powder

Stars tonight,
Ground to powder-
The Smokey Way!

Attention!

Up!

The bamboo-

Where else?
But up!

Lights! Camera! Christmas!

Christmas

Seems a shame

To clean spider webs

On Christmas day.

hide

For some reason
When the sea breeze rolls in
The magpies hide.

Mahler

At the gas pump
Mahler, too...
Cries for love.

Christmas

Christmas parties-
You're right to close up tonight
Dandelions.

scotch!

Kookaburra

Young Kookaburra-
Same cry
Different tree.

Blue

Twittering trees-
Blue butterflies
Released.

thunderbolt, again!

christmas treat!

rain

There are mornings
When I look forward
To rain.

dragons

Beautiful mornings-
There are so many
Made of dragons.

that season

graze

Over weeks
Dandelions 
Come to graze.

field

Just so! Summer field-
Black cows to the left
White to the right.

touché

sand

Twilight beach-
Come, let's shuffle
Among sand crabs.

piano!

dreaming

Half asleep-
What are your dreams
Waterlilies? 

breath

bouquet

A bouquet of weeds-
An offering
Tonight.

Harry

big

Connecting
Trees to clouds
The moon was that big.

Rescue!

turkey

Bush turkey-
You don't know my name,
Nor I, yours.

et, oui!

salt

Rainy season-
From the salt shaker,
Tears flood!

Christmas

On the palm tree-
Christmas lights, already
Display sadness.

pray

Either side
Of the garbage bin
Magpies seem to pray.

Evelyn Evelyn!

Poinciana

While looking at
The poinciana tree, 
I forgot the sunset.

clouds

Evaporation-
Look at the purple clouds
And friendships ended!

diapers

Wearing diapers
Is what I hear.
Morning crows.

cheese!

breakfast

Chicken shit-
That's all you get for breakfast
Tomato plant!

cicada

Horny cicada-
Pinprick
Of the trees.

Frank's world

waves

Impossible-
Counting small fish
Under the waves. 

bookends

Green bookends-
Outside my window
A pair of frogs.

Norfolk

Norfolk pine-
I knew that tree 
When it was just a boy.

I don't know about you but I'm definitely a pig.

confetti

Pasted to the sky-
Confetti
Of cranes.

song

Tonight-
From the drainpipe
A frog's song.

sea

cranes

There are times 
When I too, would fly
With distant cranes.

jacaranda

Jacaranda-
Even just your name,
A thrill!

tasty

Tasty worms
I wouldn't know-
Morning magpies.

brooms

Arrival gate-
A dozen dark women
With brooms. 

snake

Watch out
I say to my bare feet-
There's black snake!

spider

'Big as my fist'!

I want to tell my friends-

The hairy spider.

for some reason this makes me smile, it needs cartoon music

heron

The golfer
Missing the heron
By a song.

mangoes

Two mangoes-
One dinner
One desert.

ballet

Help!

To a new place-
Help! My old ideas
Came too.

up

Looking up
For no reason-
Koala!

sea

This desert,
My skin;
A sea of wrinkles.

thinking

moon

Twilight cloud-
Jealous
Of the full moon.

murmuration!

whales

Offshore
Whales breaching
In silence.

hairdo

New hairdo!
The Camphor Laurel
Cut down last year.

ghost

Twilight ghost-
My hand
Moon shadow.

touchy and feely

blue

Shaded field-
White flowers
Appear blue.

sleep

Preparing for sleep-
Even a spider 
Shifts and turns.

shout

Koala!
Too lazy to shout:
Welcome back!