Tag: Gum trees

Can I write my life

as a poem

Quick short flashes of insight

of LSD, aka acid, colours

Bright edgy

Stare and dive into them

Driving by Aussie icons daily

Giant flagpole above the Parliament House

Flag flapping in the wind

A flag subservient to the British monarchy

Looking on but feeling no connection

Compare the figures

in painter Sidney Nolan’s Ned Kelly series

Aussie landscape backgrounded

Stretching, shapely, tonal, subtle, expansive land

Figures of Ned Kelly and British police

Flat, harsh, superimposed

Not belonging in the Aussie landscape

Outliers

When and where do I belong

There is a place

A shared space for me

and extremely endangered gum trees

Callum Brae Nature Reserve

Here I belong

Talking to the trees

I reassure them

I will take a stand to protect

Our shared space