Port Sorell, Tasmania (photographs)

Copyright © Kayleen White, 2014 (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 :)

[Content Warning] Destructo

Before I was born
did I sign
some secret deal
a hidden accord
with Shiva
or Kali
or Skuld?

I seem
it sems to me
to cause such
pain
and ... endings
and destruction
wherever I go,
whatever I do.

Bonds break;
that which was
taken for
granted
can
no longer
be;
relationships split
- parent from child,
- brother from sister,
all changes
twould seem
that lead to
better things,
changes torn and new
but
offset by
that which is
newly minted,
and yet ...
and yet ..
did I sign some thing?

Copyright © Kayleen White, 2012 I 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 merit, and ask only that any readers do not have any undue expectations. If you consider me wrong, then publish me – with full credit, of course :)

Mt Wellington, Tasmania (photographs)

These photos were taken a few years ago.

Copyright © Kayleen White, 2014 (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 :)

[Content Warning] The Stupid

Ah, the stupidity of the stupid
- "Hey Man" to all
and sundry,
male and female,
too stupid to
notice
any offence.

It's right uyp there,

there with
the presumption
"Of course we all want 
what ever I say 
we all want." 

They're both up there
with those who ignore
"neither a borrower nor
a lendr
be",
and get caught out
with misplace tools
- accidentally, of course,
or ... I forgot.

All of them
they're all up
there,
there with
the chicken
that won't
fly the coup,
and
the dreamer
who let
the dream
die.

Copyright © Kayleen White, 2012 I 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 merit, and ask only that any readers do not have any undue expectations. If you consider me wrong, then publish me – with full credit, of course :)

Yuletide Blessing

My snoz ..
is froz. 

This is NOT Copyright, as someone somewhere MUST have thought of this previously ... 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 :)

[Content Warning] A slow drowning

In war
a soldier may die
- unable to move,
injured,
slipping down
into the mud
- an inexorable
unimaginable
drowning.

In peace
a commuter may die
unable to leave,
trapped,
slipping deeper
into debt
and misery
- an inexorable
imaginable
metaphorical
drowning.


Copyright © Kayleen White, 2014 (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 :)

[Content Warning] Isolation

The person adrift
in a small boat 
is not alone
- just different
to all the life teeming
in that greatest
of salty deserts ...
the sea.

The friendless one,
the isolated,
is not alone
- just different
to all the 'life' mouldering
in that greatest
of spiritual deserts ...
the city.


Copyright © Kayleen White, 2014 (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 :)