The late Winter flowers are starting to emerge.
Creamy white jonquils stand tall beneath the peach trees.
Purple and white hellebores with downcast faces
look to their earth mother in dismay.., come closer!
Purple buds of daphne set to explode
with their intense sweet citrus perfume
Lemon and lime glow in yellow orbs
a gift of tang to our kitchen creations.
Yesterday two hawks screeched in mid air combat
I hope it's no bad omen. One flew directly
at my head. Perhaps they were courting.
A hungry fox noses around the middle dam
sniffing for a delight of duck, or turtle
or any good luck. Meanwhile close by, two roos
jump across the trail, the larger one also
jumps the paddock fence. The joey slowly
skirts alongside the road searching for
some way through, and finds her access
of deliverance. The mother is now nowhere in sight.
The fox I spot down in the valley,
it trots nonchalantly biding its time.
The joey I can see among the high grass
she stands there gazing at me. We wait.
The world moves in constant flux. Seasons delight
and dismay. Will the Lord of Fire afflict
us again? Gina and her minions
Dutton and Barnaby, the LNP
those careless hawkers of fossil fuel
continue to stoke climate change disasters
in this fragile world. Crimes against humanity?
History should not be kind. Lest we forget.
Now Trump may return. I can't believe folk
will vote him in. But they have a different sort
of people over there, many who believe his spin
his snake oil spruiking tout of faith. The Lord
saved him from the bullet. Praise The Lord.
Believe in Sanctified Destiny!
Raise your fists for deliverance.
I am your saviour, your retribution!
Another rough beast slouches towards Bethlehem.
Putin believes in a Holy War. The seat of Russian
orthodoxy lies in Kiev. Ukraine is Russian territory.
The Patriarch Kirill has told him so. Putin is
a 'gift from god'. We shape our gods.
And clothe them in garments stitched
to suit the narrative. It has always been so.
Netanyahu seeks to obliterate the enemy
in the name of 'god', quoting from the Book
of Samuel. 'Blot out the memory of Amalek
from under Heaven. Do not spare them'
said God to Samuel. 'Put to death men
and women, children and infants, cattle
and sheep, camels and donkeys.' Near forty
thousand Palestinians have been slaughtered
so far in this almighty retribution.
The renowned Jewish rabbi Hillel had this
saying 'Do not do unto others what
you would not have done to yourself.' Israel
has seemingly forgotten what the Nazi did.
A majority support Netanyahu's slaughter.
Holy Land? Your god has abandoned you.
In fact you blew Him to bits last Tuesday
He was part of that Aid convoy in Gaza.
Put your shekels away, you are beyond
Absolution.
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Now the wind blasts fiercely chasing the tail
of Winter.
Such are the changing Seasons.
Trump, Putin and Netanyahu will have theirs.
Then sink to dust
derided and damned by History.
Now the Superb Wren flits among bushes
in blue flashes, past the golden wattle.
His dowdy but charming female trusts her
instinct for provision. The tiny
Silver-Eyes float down in twittering green
flock into the pink blossom of cherry
and prunus. Tulips rise in startling
colours, magnolias toast the garden
in purple and white chalices held aloft.
Here's to rebirth and a renewal of hope.
Cheers.
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