Lalor park and wetland 07Dec2024

Nature rising above civilisation's confines ... 

 

 

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A bug ...

A bug am I
on the windscreen
of others' lives ...
 

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Nightmares

The current nightmares
of paper and authority and the stress of change ...
are triggering the old
of abuse and power and societal "games" and "norms".

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The world

The world has no place for me
- nor I for it, such as it is.

 

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A life at war

Forty years - a lifetime - a soldier
Forty years at war
- not physical,
this a war of psychic and psyche
a struggles for societies' souls. 

Forty years a hidden soldier
taking wounds,
too oft near death,
unseen fights
on unseen fields. 

We did not win
- but the fight goes on,
and we blocked
the spread of hate,
naysayed some horrors;
and now I leave
around two score
- forty more
warriors to complete this quest
warriors I have trained,
and now pass my mantle to,
as I retire
to battlefield hospital.

 

Copyright © Kayleen White, 2024 (where this date is different to the year of publication, it is because I did the post some time ago and then used the scheduling feature to delay publication). I take these photographs and undertake these writings – and the sharing of them – for the sake of my self expression. I am under no particular illusions as to their literary or artistic merit, and ask only that any readers do not have any undue expectations. If you consider me wrong, then publish me – with full credit and due financial recompense, of course :) 

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Connections

Connections
how do I find
the person I need right now? 

One day I am up
and a friend with humour will sustain ...
the next I may be down
and the friend with compassion
in cried upon shoulder
and listened to tongue
is what is sought;
and other days
I may not know what I need
- how then
to find, to know, to communicate
with that necessary human or caring touch?

Copyright © Kayleen White, 2024 (where this date is different to the year of publication, it is because I did the post some time ago and then used the scheduling feature to delay publication). I take these photographs and undertake these writings – and the sharing of them – for the sake of my self expression. I am under no particular illusions as to their literary or artistic merit, and ask only that any readers do not have any undue expectations. If you consider me wrong, then publish me – with full credit and due financial recompense, of course :) 

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War

War.

The danger; the horror,
the never leaving 
terror and devastation ...
the death
... some marked just by shadows.

And then there are
the living shadows
... broken threads and holes
- gaps of missingness
in the web of life ...

Copyright © Kayleen White, 2024 (where this date is different to the year of publication, it is because I did the post some time ago and then used the scheduling feature to delay publication). I take these photographs and undertake these writings – and the sharing of them – for the sake of my self expression. I am under no particular illusions as to their literary or artistic merit, and ask only that any readers do not have any undue expectations. If you consider me wrong, then publish me – with full credit and due financial recompense, of course :) 

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