Waterfall in the remnant of forest in easy walking from home. This is my air pocket in this city of 4 million people.
If you click the IMG below you will get an amazing 13 seconds of refreshing beauty.
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 aeons (from new bush track)
I felt very energised after my walk .My first time to put up a video. It is only 13 seconds but amazing . I am so thrill to have this so close I can walk there and be in another world .
A poem that I wrote when i first found this place and it was published in Fire on Water 2016 publ. Ginninderra Press
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 palms push upwards
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 aeons
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
there is a loneliness in this
yet lost from the world
i am found
and to the cadence of nature
i dance