northeasterlies . . .
a fleet of bluebottles
sails into Sydney harbour
Corine Timmer
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my dead father orders me
to pay attention
Myron Lysenko
once a hunter
my father rescues
drowning bees
Jahan Tyson
sitting on a bench
the silence
of passing time
Franҫoise Maurice
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the presenter’s cat
presents
Michael J. Leach
lazy Sunday
Sasha on the sofa
grooms one paw
Lynette Arden
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the sailboat skims
a patch of light
Ron C. Moss
winter afternoon
shadows follow
the tide out
Robyn Braithwaite
taking all
that we take for granted—
crown of thorns starfish
Mark Miller
flapping wings
on a driftwood perch—
plastic bag
Jenny Macaulay
fluke sighting
before another blue whale
disappears
M Faz
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in sand beside the creek
yesterday’s footprints
Jan Dobb
desire path
to the river bend
cicada song
Lyn Reeves
by the river
corellas scramble for space
solitary ironbark
Colleen Keating
a palace
of crimson rosellas
sunlit conifer
Robyn Cairns
setting sun a black cockatoo’s tail feathers
Marilyn Humbert
Continue readingfrail crescent
held in the dewy twigs
pale light
Padmasiri Jayathilaka
sharing poetry
moonrise
through the trees
Ohnmar John
pine needle
to pine needle
spider silk
Samantha Sirimanne Hyde
prayer flags—
a sheet of paperbark flutters
in the morning breeze
Coral Carter
sacred lotus the pink of her flushed cheeks
Stella Damarjati
ancient riverbed spirituality awakens
Janet Campbell
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