The colours of Nature

Pink

September 2024

Pink

Fairy floss

Stuck

On the nose

Of kunyani

Licked off

By warming

By the sun

Dissolving

Into the caverns

Of the city 

Below

Blue

From the Island

Gazing

Hills East

Hills West

Wind and recent rain have cleared the air

And now, with warmth

Eucalyptus oil is rising

Blue hills 

An Australian legend on the radio waves

(transforming the visual to the auditory)

And a spine of blue mountains

West of Sydney

And here

Across Storm Bay and D’Entrecasteaux Channel

Orange

 27 June 2024

Ochre or rust

Golden or burnt

Breakfast feasting eaten

then skins transformed

Into shrivelled fire lighters

Morning’s scalloped sky

Dangling freshly shed bark

Shivering amongst the canopy

Underfoot, geology oozes oranges

Then seen raised above into shrubbery

As burnt off, dying Xanthorrhea blades

And even higher as senescing eucalypt leaves

Orange vegetation falls back to the earth 

Fodder for the brightest of orange fungi

Dots of pencil-head caps and cup sized umbrellas 

The sun’s halo glows

Warm wood of my home’s interior glows

All orange as worthy as gold

Green

Saggs glowing lime green

Mosses spilling across ground

Sun makes wattles shine