poetry, Senryū, writing

6.56 am April 25th Anzac day 2024, Melbourne Au

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sunrise
blood red leaves
about to fall

‘On 25 April 1915 Australian soldiers landed at what is now called Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula.

For the vast majority of the 16,000 Australians and New Zealanders who landed on that day, it was their first experience of combat. By that evening, 2,000 of them had been killed or wounded.

The Gallipoli campaign was a military failure. However, the traits that were shown there – bravery, ingenuity, endurance and mateship – have become enshrined as defining aspects of the Australian character’.

https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/gallipoli-landing#:~:text=On%2025%20April%201915%20Australian,had%20been%20killed%20or%20wounded.

poetry

Desperate for a durry*

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melaleuca dreams

bark stripped, flaked, rolled up and smoked

tea tree oil scolds brain

* Durry = cigarette https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/perth-breakfast/speakeasy-durries-and-darts/13616626

This verse is dedicated to my client Peter H who told me about the improvised ciggie that he made when he was struggling to give up the smokes years ago. He was desperate for a durry today, having fallen for a scam.

Love ya mate.

Originally published under the Bleak Mouse banner.

Desperate for a durry*
Haiku, poetry, Senryū

A brown butterfly browses

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searching for saw-sedge
takes nature break on bracken
quick syncs with human

This particular Sword-grass Brown butterfly (tisiphone abeona albifascia) is a subspecies endemic to the Alpine area of Victoria and can be found as far south as the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne. This one is from Badgers Weir on the Yarra Valley. The  larvae feed on saw-sedge.

This is likely the last of my long service leave holiday snaps (with verse).  Work resumes for me on Tuesday. 

Haiku, poetry, Senryū

Toward Yea River 

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through the ferns softly
whipbirds flick out a welcome *
crows call out vrark vrark

* To hear an Eastern Whipbird
https://ebird.org/species/easwhi1?siteLanguage=en_GB

The Toolangi State Forest, which contains the Yea River, was once thought of as an exemplar of sympathetic logging of native forest in Victoria.  Since controlled logging of native timbers ceased, it seems funds to care for State forests are harder to come by.
A pity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toolangi_State_Forest

Senryū & Haiku Au style