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Rumination

04 Saturday Jul 2015

Posted by Elsa Holland in LIFE, POETRY

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Australian bush, healing, imponderables, poetry, survival

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Which deeds would I change if I lived my life over?
Yes, a few – not a lot, I say thinking it over
For mistakes that I’ve made have caused changes in me
Which have made me today who I happen to be
Some things on the farm should have never been true
And some dire results haunt me all my life through
Yet the peace of the bush where we lived way back then
Taught me love for the country like those men of the pen
The dust, rock and gum trees, the freedom I feel
With the wind in my face have a quiet appeal
Hearing only the calls of a bird on the wing
When I’m there on my own I can hear my heart sing
Yes things happened to us that cause strong men to kneel
Yet my love of the bush I’m sure helped me to heal
Not just when the pain was too much to go through
And an innocent child found ‘numb’ easy to do
My mem’ries are scanty of the bad things back then
But bush wonders discovered I can relive again
Any time my heart aches I can be in that place
Under blue sky and red gum, gentle breeze on my face.

© Zoe Younger April 2008

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Rumination

29 Wednesday Apr 2015

Posted by Zoetic Words in LIFE, POETRY

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Australian bush, healing, imponderables, poetry, survival

Which deeds would I change if I lived my life over?
Yes, a few – not a lot, I say thinking it over
For mistakes that I’ve made have caused changes in me
Which have made me today who I happen to be
Some things on the farm should have never been true
And some dire results haunt me all my life through
Yet the peace of the bush where we lived way back then
Taught me love for the country like those men of the pen
The dust, rock and gum trees, the freedom I feel
With the wind in my face have a quiet appeal
Hearing only the calls of a bird on the wing
When I’m there on my own I can hear my heart sing
Yes things happened to us that cause strong men to kneel
Yet my love of the bush I’m sure helped me to heal
Not just when the pain was too much to go through
And an innocent child found ‘numb’ easy to do
My mem’ries are scanty of the bad things back then
But bush wonders discovered I can relive again
Any time my heart aches I can be in that place
Under blue sky and red gum, gentle breeze on my face.

© Zoe Younger April 2008

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So much for friendship!

27 Monday Apr 2015

Posted by Zoetic Words in LIFE, POETRY

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Cat, friendship, poetry

So much for friendship… 

I took a new friend home last year, to introduce her there
I knew she needed company, a feed, some warmth and care
When she felt scared, alone, afraid, I stayed up half the night
To comfort her, to be with her, said all would work out right

Six months along, she’s still around, she’s not inclined to roam
She eats my food, she drinks my drink and makes herself at home
She drops her hair – it’s everywhere – she never picks things up
Just leaves them, then I stand on them, my heart goes giddy-up

She’s s’posed to be my confidant; she’s s’posed to be my friend,
I thought she’d listen, care, be there – until the very end
I hoped she’d understand me, care that I get lonely too
But since she came I’m lonelier and now I’m feeling blue

She fell in love, the witch, and ‘cause she’s found a boyfriend now
She dropped me like a red hot brick, she dumped me, rotten cow
The way she’s started treating me, it really gives me pause
So much for friendship now I’ve seen that she has teeth and claws

She stole my husband in the night, he left me without warning
I found her dark brown hairs upon his pillow in the morning
Her small exotic figure lured him in, makes me feel fat
And all because she such a lovely brown Burmese cross cat

Zoe Younger © 2008

 

Bebe

Thanks Bebe. By the way, nothing has changed In all these years!

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Winter Homeless

25 Saturday Apr 2015

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cold, homeless, poetry, Winter

Homeless dogs in winter time heating on sanitaryware well

The way was dark and stormy, the street lights burning thin
‘twas not a night to be about, ‘twas time to be within
A cloud of mist hung heavy, the roadway none to clear
The rows of grave-like houses monotonous and drear
I wandered up and down and round but nowhere did I find
The cheery warmth I nightly sought to leave the chill behind
All my friends had said their prayers and nodded off to sleep
Content and warm and satisfied, their loved ones in their keep
I stumbled to the river deep that flows relentless on
And pondered on the ripple that like me would soon be gone
For what is life to those who peer through windows in the night
To watch the happy faces chatting by the fires light
Forever just a shadow unnoticed by the crowd
Whose soundless chatter echoes in the silent misty shroud.

©1997 Zoe Younger

It’s a cold winter night tonight and I’m thinking of those who are out there in the cold, homeless.

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