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Susie's October Poems

10/18/2014

1 Comment

 
a distant light


when I recall the summer of my winter dreams

I see a road unwinding

inviting me to cross red plains

that spell of far horizons


in the summer of my winter dreams

rain exists…but only as sprinkled dew

mornings are crisp

days are clear

and where spinifex grows slow

as if by chance strange flowers bloom

in the heat of a desert sun


and only these mark night’s cold stay

starlight and the moon


Susie Faint

2014

 


in the waking light …


all I see are your bright eyes

your smile tracing the sound of bird …


come little warrior

under my wing tuck your silky head

bundle all your plump pinkness

your baby-quick breath 

into the heart of my feather nest 


you can gather my hair in tight dimple-fists

and gleefully pull

if you insist 

cover my face with urgent wet kisses

till the sun climbs the sky … 


and if you persist


I shall know it is time

for you to be fed

to warm you a bottle

to leap out of bed



Susie Faint

(re Lachlan 11 months 1/10/12)


ode to uma

imagine lying in the sun each day
where lawn grows thick and insects play
where beetles fiddle to butterflies’ trysts
and blue wasps hover as lawn grubs twist
while ants must scavenge for every crumb
all this happens as cicadas strum
 
imagine lying beneath clear skies
lulled by twitters and rustling leaves
till a breeze steals the warmth from the day
and when the sun sinks at last for a rest
and cobwebs are strung between trees
then night shall be a riot of stars
and not rain nor thunder nor clouds nor tides
will hide or banish the moon

when grass springs thick and cicadas strum
when the scar on the path isn’t there
imagine the plea in large brown eyes
a nose to the ground from the gate to the dunes
how the tip of a tail lit the way  
to those wonderful trails by the sea


Susie Faint      16/7/14




somerset revisited

here I am once again in somerset
the heat of the day is done
red in hand I sit by our van with a hum
book on knee ‘neath a tree
and watch from our hill the activity

I swear that crow is winking at me

pelicans flirt on the calm
noisy miners at last nestle down
boats bobbing at ramps promise marin for tea
and a breeze hesitates as the setting sun paints
sky and waters of somerset
shades of pink and violet
darkening to plum

the whisper of night has come

campfires flicker near tents pitched wide
the better to watch wood smoke rise
true as those iron barks grow
while our southern stars rake a canopy
that but for them would otherwise be
black as indian ink

Susie Faint

20/11/13

(somerset is Somerset Dam in SE Qld; the hum is a low rather companionable sound emanating from a generator for the caravan; marin are fresh-water lobsters.)

1 Comment
Judy
10/18/2014 02:17:41 pm

There's an air of gentleness about these poems, Susie. And some extraordinary phrases that reach out and touch the senses with their charm and imagery. Sometimes they almost surprise e.g. 'road unwinding', (far from the hackneyed 'winding road' we read of so often); 'beetles fiddle to butterflies' trysts' …

Your little grandson poem touches the heart.

I know Somerset Dam. I really would love to see those pelicans flirting.

Judy

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