Poem Category: All

Shopping with mum

dragged behind the tot

her naughty doll.

Shoe shine man

another sneeze held

with his polishing cloth.

Ocean road highway

stretched to the horizon

the long scent of summer.

Footpath coffees

our sponge cakes coming

past a rubbish bin.

Solitaire card games…

next door‘s daughters

all home safe tonight.

Puppet

sitting up in his trunk

where the show-girls are.

Grandmother talking softly

her tea-pot‘s coloured

old and knitted cosy.

Meeting old friends

our coffee-cup talk

in and out of shadows.

New year

finding rust gathered

in the widower‘s car.

Ape bellows

his mate steps from the bushes

suckling their babe.