When autumn wind sighs over mitchell grass downs I look for you stencilled black against the coppery glow. We speak of simple things living a l ...
Marilyn Humbert
Marilyn Humbert lives in the Northern suburbs of Sydney NSW Australia. Her Tanka and Haiku appear in many international and Australian journals, anthologies and online. Her free-verse poems have been awarded prizes in competitions and some have been published.
night is alive with stars watching moonflowers’ unfurling petals I sit among their shadows my feet trammels dust waiting for your retu ...
Behind a ruined cottage ghosts endure among untended trees. Imperfect fruit weighs down gnarled branches. The shadow of a child skips rope, each turn ...
A black line of clouds expands upwards above the trees. I watch in confusion. Your boots crumble honeycomb-cracks stepping across the yard towards me. ...
We dodge sedge and thistles through overhanging branches on the riverbank kangaroo trail, stirring dust of ancient artisans. I see their ...
beyond the window a net of roots stitches the creek bank to battered earth. red dust swirls, seeds lie in cracks and crevices patient for rain. ...
sound of rain fills the gaps between one blink and the next waiting for the storm to pass among shadows in their heads thunder a crescen ...
from the ledge George Street traffic throbs vehicles thread towards sunset crowds weave neon flashes noise ebbs and flows there’s peace here among c ...
I find him barefoot moon-silvered face tilted to forest canopy scrabbles luminous eyes in my torch beam. Now the lightning eastern sky stirs cu ...
On the banks of the Manning a sea eagle high in the conifer balances on a bare branch shreds and devours its writhing catch. Scales, bones, ent ...
