For my lovely wife, Zsor-zsor

full moon and full life
let the sunrise wake you love
from haemorrhagic dreams

Bad news – my lovely wife, Zsor-zsor, had a haemorrhagic stroke when we were out on Friday night.  This picture looking South at the daytime full moon through the Springvale pedestrian crossing bridge is dedicated to her in the hope that she will rouse her self enough to glance at the morning sun and that it will help ease and heal her injured brain.  It’s a view she saw each day when we walked the bridge for morning exercise.

I’m not sure what posting I might do in the coming days, weeks or perhaps months whilst tears cloud my vision.

Sunshine shortage

thinning out on top
crowning glory will return
unlike my foliage

Shortest day, Melbourne Vic
Sunrise at 7:36 am; Sunset 5.08 pm
Friday, June 21, 2024

Bloody hell boy! 

Simple pleasures

magpies and ravens
sharing a sunny bald tree
in winter sunshine

Australian magpies and ravens (including Australian crows, which are very very similar to Australian ravens) are only distantly related to species on other continents.  With a photo like this, I doubt if anyone can tell the difference.

A lazy dreamer writes a retirement plan [senryū]

How do you want to retire?

striving to achieve
puffing hard from exertion
worn out – completely

Excuse me my dear

budda walk with me

towards our enlightenments

before we part ways

Excuse me my dear

Originally published under my Blake Mouse pseudonym.

Steps on love’s path

buddha emerges
after wandering love’s path
retraces more steps

This row of bronze Buddhas progressively emerge from the ground.  First there is a bust set at ground level, then a torso and eventually a full standing statue. Or could it be that the full standing one is the first statue in a series of statues that depict a return to the ground, to nature or a return to our essence?
Anyway, I’m quite taken by this arrangement of five Buddha statues.

Before the shortest day [Southern_hemisphere]

brain enters shut down
as greyness takes over the sky
reboots with wellies

At a stretch, perhaps this ray of light vaguely resembles a Wellington boot.

Saving a marsupial [Sculpture]

plastic empathy
with silicone sympathy
this stuff has a heart

Sculpture inspired by the rescue of koalas from the 2020 bushfires.

‘The rescuers’ by Patricia Piccinini, 2021, on display at SAM –
Shepparton Art Museum

Undercurrent

murray river flows
rippling broadly as a smile
whilst snagging toes

Beware of snags

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An even more sombre third line might be ‘whilst taking souls’.  For example, of thousands of US and Australian airmen trained to be paratroopers, or to fly B24 Liberators etc. in WWII, there were more casualties from swimming in the Murray than from flying, firearms training or parachuting accidents. Beware of snags indeed.

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A view of Lake Mulwala

‘ man’s enduring flood
dead forest of rotted gums
eerie overlay

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‘ man ~> human

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Lake Mulwala on the Murray river was created in 1939 to provide water for irrigating the  Hume region of Victoria and Riverina region of New South Wales.  Remnants of the flooded forest remain, adding an eerie aspect to the otherwise beautiful lake.

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Caw, it’s the sound of happy crows

happy vrarking sound
an amusement of blithe crows
no bloody murder

Nature’s escrow

brown leather-look leaves
a leisurely treasury
of mulch for later