ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

Our workplace entered a team in the Diabetes WA team challenge, which is designed to encourage people to Eat 2 & 5, and Find 30. Well, I'm not a morning person, and my lunch break seems to disappear too quickly to get my 30 mins in, and most nights when I knock off work, it is dark and I really don't feel like going out walking. Consequently, I fiddle around until I really have to go and do it, and that is often after 10 or 11pm at night. But, there are advantages to doing it at that time of the night when most people are closed up inside, and the night is clear and silent. It had been raining earlier when I went out the other night, and the residue made the night absolutely beautiful!!

After The Rain
© Irene Conner 16/05/11

The moonlight gilds a thousand drops
that light the shadowed leaves
and glistens on the tiny pools
that Mother Earth retrieves.
The air’s perfumed by native scents
from gums and bushes damp
that lifts my soul in gratitude
as ceaselessly I tramp.

A rainbow rings the golden orb
with colour through a cloud
as silence – blessed silence –
wraps me in its velvet shroud.
The freshness of the rain-soaked earth
lies soft beneath my feet,
and nature leads me forward with
her ancient, haunting beat.

The night air cools my heated brow
and soothes my busy mind
as peace invades my consciousness
and leaves my woes behind.
And I could walk a thousand miles
in solitude this night,
sustained by silent holiness
and natures’ wondrous sight.

God Irene that's almost enough to make me want to come along with you.

How beautiful this is - a lovely poem Mate - well done.

Cheers

Maureen

I really like this one Irene, so beautifully written, and it flows like a good poem should.

Terry

Thank you Maureen and Terry.
I love the night skies, but I went out reluctantly that night around 1130pm, and truly, it was magical!!
Once I let my mind stop enough to just enjoy, I could have kept walking for a lot longer!! Alas, I had to get to bed so I could make it to work in the morning!!

Catchya
IRene

Absolutely beautiful Irene; a scene of peace and inner peace. Brought a smile to my dial.

Heather

I like that Irene. Just the right length I think. Almost has the style and sound of a sonnet

Very well written Irene. I reckon that if you can picture the scene in your mind as you read it then it is spot on.


Cheers Bob

Irene I have just come from my shed (Important job for Herself) walking from shed to house in the dark I noticed how still the night is; after the storms of last night not a breath of breeze, stars twinkling and reflecting light from the pools in the street and on opening the forum I find this poem.

Great stuff.

TTFN

woo-hoo Irene,

Those little 'elbow' poems, that sneek in when you least expect it, are usually doozies. Goodonya! You don't get time to sit and think (like some of us) but when the muse is on you, you produce a piece like this. It's a beauty. Thank you for sharing it and not keeping it hidden (so that you can kock me out of any chance in a comp).

We don't see enough of your writing.

Beautiful Irene, I can feel, sense and smell the atmosphere on that walk, WeLL DONE, another one PLEASE.
Sue