Everguide

Here is a poem written for a person who has given me much time and wisdom, on the event of her departure:

Gently

You took me backwards

To lead me forward

And treading in the footprints you made

I looked down with surprise

To find they were mine -

That I had been this way before,

With eyes open but blindfolded

Against the real

Now the mystery, defused, broken down,

Become seedbed,

Births endlessly

In endings are beginnings

In the leaving

The new earth, untrod,

Contains potency:

Both you and I, unhaltered, go together

In separate shared experience

(Richard W.,  July 2012)

Men Loved Wholly Beyond Wisdom

Men loved wholly beyond wisdom
Have the staff without the banner.
Like a fire in a dry thicket
Rising within women's eyes
Is the love men must return.
Heart, so subtle now, and trembling,
What a marvel to be wise.,
To love never in this manner!
To be quiet in the fern
Like a thing gone dead and still,
Listening to the prisoned cricket
Shake its terrible dissembling
Music in the granite hill. 

Louise Bogan

RSCM Canberra Chorale sings new Australian Anthems - Compilation 2012

Here is footage from a small choral group I was asked to sing in. The singers were quite good and the pieces okay. We had to learn and perform in a few hours so it is very slightly ropey in places, but not too bad. I'm the on ein the middle looking nonchalant.

Thunderstorm

Si in te non essent, non essent!!

St Augustin

A stormy electric day. Swords clashing

in the stark darkness of our partial knowledge. 

Will against will

ignorance against ignorance

misunderstanding against misunderstanding.

Frightening shadows

fighting, in desperate fear

of their own distorted reflections 

until, exhausted, we lay aside

steel and determination,

willpower, and the itch to be right,

until we are weak enough

to cease to resist, 

to lie down in pain, and see 

That there is nothing to fight but love