Our Local Bush
We are very blessed by walking 10 minutes from our home we enter this wonderful pocket of bush a remnant of Eucalypts, especially the wonder of Red Gum and cedars , The second layer makes a pocket of rainforest environment with its Tree Ferns, Palms and Bird Nests . There is the relaxing sound of the tinkling of water, examples of sandstone and a bridge to walk across the creek.
Here is an opportunity for Forest Bathing . The quiet restfulness and many shades of green is special. I once called it my air pocket for survival . Today 5 years since we moved here and first discovered this bush it is just as wonderful
new bush track
moving house means searching
for new wilderness
like a miner after an elusive air pocket
following a green area on a map
hidden by development
encroached to the edge
behind an old scout hall
a brambly track
winds me down
through a sandstone escarpment
the dawn-sun plays into the hands
of eucalypts stretched
to seek the light
yet their search for meaning
being found more in their roots
symbiotically curled around sturdy rock
here dew tipped casuarinas sparkle
here grass trees verdantly splurge
as if their whole purpose is to shine
self important the palms push upwards
like screaming rock stars
honey birds swing on rusty gold banksia
magpies warble
in the whip cracked air
this is the australian bush
how it pulls me in
through the trees i glimpse a waterfall
and marvel to think it has always been here
carving musically into the heart of the earth
it has sung its song for eons
it is the human in me that delights
nature just is in its own world
whole unto itself
it doesn’t even know I’m here
and there is a loneliness in this
yet lost from the world
i am found
and to the cadence of nature
i dance
Colleen
