Keep your distance sister
And keep your heart in check
Send across the open space
All the love you cannot keep.
Words from the Jagged Edge of Truth
Keep your distance sister
And keep your heart in check
Send across the open space
All the love you cannot keep.
We followed the
silver river as it tumbled
and splashed over rocks,
twisted and turned its way
through bush and tree glade;
neither the starting point
of its waters, nor their final
destination could we find.
LIVING WATER
We followed the
silver river as it tumbled
and splashed over rocks,
twisted and turned its way
through bush and tree glade;
neither the starting point
of its waters, nor their final
destination could we find.
He drives the axe
into the block of blue gum
just like is grandfather did
all those years ago,
splitting kindling for
the wood burner,
necessary for food
and warmth
both now and then.
He drives the axe into
the block of blue gum
just like is grandfather did
all those years ago,
splitting kindling for
the wood burner,
necessary for food
and warmth
both now and then.
for Philip
In the high silence
above our house
in the hills, I catch
a whisper of sweet
songs and names
half-forgotten by
the hurried years;
below in the valley,
the silver river
flickers like a candle,
in the light of the sun,
on your birthday.
for Philip
In the high silence
above our house
in the hills, I catch
a whisper of sweet
songs and names
half-forgotten by
the hurried years;
below in the valley,
the silver river
flickers like a candle,
in the light of the sun,
on your birthday.
A sharp, narrow sickle,
golden in the evening sky
dances with the bright star
in the west;
together they dangle
the earth beneath them
on that delicate thread
that hangs us in the balance.
remembering Jennifer
She had waited for this day,
wanted to conclude
another year toasting
friends and family;
he sees little point now
in candles and cake,
toasts instead her portrait
hanging from his heart.
Into the flames
I pour my eyes
and glimpse
the birth of eternity;
here, in the embers
of the fire
is every dream
awakened.