A blue moon is here
Again her beauty is mine
She can make me howl
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She came to me in silence.
Her heart clinging to her sleeve –
Begged me not to see the violence
And prayed that I wouldn’t leave.
I need to talk was all she said.
Her dark downcast eyes revealed –
The pain of sharing, easily read.
So with words we hoped this could be healed.
A life of promise was nearly over –
The tipping point showed in her scars.
The truth at last – like a three leaf clover.
Barefoot now she could not pass.
Her life she gave to this broken man –
His promise sealed with a golden ring.
Her body has given everything It can.
Trapped in this cage she cannot sing.
No more, she whispered on my shoulder –
Her bones so fragile under hand.
She said this time it’s truly over.
She’d found the nerve to make her stand;
The door is slammed; her final bow –
… It’s ok Sis, you’re back home now.
“Before learning how to be an artist,
you need to understand how to be a person”
quote: Jose Garcia Herranz (Artist)
Deciduous
Spring branches begin their slow growth
Green leaves appear and buds are on the way.
The chill that was in the south
has swung around and warms the things we say.
As summer strengthens its tender hold
Occasional flowers will bear fruit.
Bees buzz and hum, encouraging the mood,
Our words no longer seem just moot.
Autumn hides the coming chill
behind a profusion of extravagance.
True colours show and bend our will
Conversations display less elegance.
Winter comes and brings a frost
that reaches deep and burns the soul.
A barren twig we seem to use the most
To lash each other with jibes we can’t control.
‘Til spring returns and frost subsides
When shoots of green will test the air.
Hope for a season that maybe abides
And once again our words are safe to share.
Hidden places
i want to see…
where you save things.
Down the microscope
Hybridization
Fluorescing and In Situ
The power to see
(What is FISH? – Fluorescence In Situ Hybridisation detects and localises DNA sequences using fluorescently labelled complimentary DNA probes. Why? In cytogenetic laboratories to observe, abnormalities in chromosomes which may be the cause of cancers or possible abnormalities in future offspring. In the pic above, they are human chromosomes fluorescing. The biggies are inter-phase cells)
As I walk the beach
On a clear winter night,
A hundred ideas cling to my feet
And are washed away by an ocean
Of one thousand stories;
While a universe of a million experiences
Watches on…
So why do I find it difficult to arrive at a topic
Bluff, New Zealand
Poetry is my aeroplane 