Boxing Day
a patchwork of coloured sails
on the harbour
Keitha Keyes
Merri Merri Creek
unrolling his prayer mat
under a river red gum
Louise Hopewell
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gannets banking
through a flash of light
ocean sunrise
Danny Carney
desert sunrise
a cockatoo’s wings
ignite
Ewan Rourke
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a sudden cloud
darkens the sea
moonbirds returning
Judith E.P. Johnson
last light
a silver sky swallows
a silver gull
M. Faz
eventide—
a murmur of pigeons
folds the night
Madhuri Pillai
heralding the moon
a soft glow behind the ridge
Simon Hanson
beachcombing
mother’s wrinkled hands
in a wave
Nathan Sidney
a rhythmic slow
graceful flight
herons into the sky
Maree Myhill
rainlight
silver gulls cluster
on a grey swell
Lyn Reeves
seagulls gather
on the abandoned trawler
drifting clouds
Regina Piroska
harbour ferry
the language
of the colours blue
Robyn Cairns
coastal rosemary
a crimson rosella
winging bluish light
Mira Walker
beachside village
eager dogs lead their owners
pavement to sand
Beverley George
wet fiddlehead
in my palm
the rescue pup’s nose
Desi Cochrane
native seed pods
carpet the earth
a birthing forest
Jennifer Zimmer-Wilson
native garden
poetry written
outside the lines
Fiona H Evans
hummingbird moths
around native foxgloves
the sea’s soft murmur
Marietta McGregor
sheltered reef—
she speaks of a friend
taken beyond
Warwick Rope
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