Can’t Fly No Better Than A Chicken

“Strike a pose” a very intimate photo shoot with this fellow at the Auburn Botanic Gardens yesterday. He was quite the pro, turning this way and that to give me a good look at all angles of his splendour! “How come it can’t fly no better than a chicken?’ Milkman asked. Too much tail. All… Read More Can’t Fly No Better Than A Chicken

Pluvial

It matters little if I thirst for you
You offer only what leaks and
Does not dry in the sand that
Follows you to places
I am uninvited

It matters little if I thirst for you
I can quench my own need
With the flavours of other men
Unafraid to catch me as
I fly over the rim

It matters little if I thirst for you
You only see your reflection
And think it speaks ill of you
And bail away as if mad
I catch the puddles

It matters little if I thirst for you
I forever swim deep in your truth
And paddle in the shallows
Of he who is not you
I thirst for the rain… Read More Pluvial

Touch

Photography: Trish Jean The Autumn colours in the Wellington Botanic Gardens are lovely, and I’ll post some coloured photos at some point…but for now I was captured by the light and texture as I often am, and I love the stories provoked by the shape and movement…and really, I just have a thing for black… Read More Touch

Wet Poetry

John Lennon said “My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.”

These photos capture the water expressing, reflecting what the Garden and the sky have to say…wet poetry!… Read More Wet Poetry