Flagging

As time goes by, swiftly

Life seems to flag

In the face

Of creaking bones and hips

*

One may slip

On uneven flagging

Tearing muscle from bone

Leaving life a little loser

Until the grand day

That comes when time is ripe

To grab you by the throat

Hello

Stark locks, red tresses

Enveloping mist

Time swapping form

Awakening spirit

*

Blonde locks, long

Engulfing

Time swapping form

Uniting spirit

*

Grey locks, baldness presses

Enlightening awareness

Time swapping form

Releasing spirit

*

Goodbye

Mirrors

Our souls are funny places

All sorts of crooks and crannies

To hide

Long forgotten trespasses

*

Looking through a mirror

Is like looking at yourself

In reverse

Long forgotten locks

*

Reflecting within a mirror

Are dreams lone gone

Lost

Long forgotten

*

Is our soul the mirror on the wall

Waiting patiently for silver to fade

As we fade, physically and emotionally

Before dropping and breaking

New places

Where are they?

Those places never seen

How do you find them?

If they do not exist

*

Does being exist?

Outside the eye of the beholder

Or is it a place not found?

Are they yours?

When you find them

*

Is awe and wondermost

Restricted to a foundling?

Sleeping silently

Until set free

New places

Unfound

Are old

Forever

*

Spectragram

Little lady leading us on

About horses and coal

Tragedies underground

*

Befits the majesty

Gigantic spirits

Wreaking black gold

*

Transparent as the darkness

Deep below

Hovering above the realm

*

Whistles enlighten

Gears screech

Screams pierce the murk below

*

Speeding

Many things to many people

Dropping a line

Thoughts a jumble

Silence screaming

Consequence

Hospital

Demerit

Deacceleration

*

Grauchicans

Worldwide there are billions

Half employed people

Never a smile on their face

Bitter, twisted to be ________

*

Simple things

Babies cribs

Toddlers lament

Drive them to distraction

*

Brother and sister bickering

Husband and wife arguing

Simple things

Set them off

*

Woebehold, if

You are in their way

When they snap

*

Grauchicans

*

Re-united

Straining, at her moorings

In the dark of night

She bested the breeze

Awaiting down and abatement

When she would be set free

*

Plying the smooth watwe

Glistening on the short ripples

She strained at the throttle

To make head speed

Ever faster, faster

*

Toward dusk the demon returned

Buffeting the proud hull

Swinging perilously on the helm

This side, that side

She lost her way

*

Suddenly, one almighty gust

Shook all to their foundations

Sitting on her hull

She felt secure

Until she flipped

*

Scampering passengers cried in despair

As her captain tossed lifejackets over

Allowing the final passengers ______

*

She sank

Smooth weather

Welcomed the contestants

‘Paddles aboard, the race began

Carried on the flood current

They soon reached the Murray

Suddenly, forwarding ceased

Trailing ropes snapped taut

Grabbed by the snag

Slowly, headway returned

Besting the snag

*

Majestically, the behemoth

Rose from the depths

In 1973 a houseboat plying the Darling River was flipped over by strong winds and floundered. Her captain and fifteen passengers were able to scramble rom the sinking boat and reach the shore. Twenty years later, participants in a marathon kayak race on the Murray River were re-united with the denizen.

This is particularly odd s there is a weir where the Darling joins the Murray.