Blues for the rain
By Kimberley Pearson Blues for the rain Jazz on a sunny day A ballad to soothe the night No love song to make it right
Bonanza
By Kimberley Pearson He thinks it’s Texas Hold EmHe made up all the rulesYou know whose town it isBut it is really a house of cards Take your spurs of cowboyIt’s not my first RodeoAnd honeyReal cowboys don’t wear toupees And The dealer has only one card to playYou can’t outplay a playerBut heaven knows …
Amethysts
By Kimberley Pearson A jewel of the Nile It’s pink tourmaline Amethyst eyes Rubies for bed Sapphires for toes A hidden pearl A heart like a 6-cut diamond Like pink crystal Turned before the moon Give her a trope And enough rope I’ll run interference for a while Until the water runs Crystal clear Then …
Make gold for me
By Kimberley Pearson I am not going to wait for anyone On shifting sands For I have solid rock In my hands And bitter words From the brightest stars Affected all the blue guitars They have danced slow dances And some they’ve cried Anguish in their chords They’ve paid homage to the dead Hummed a …
Manufacturing Consent
By Kimberley Pearson Another take down piece In the name of free speech Make your name on me Find fame in me Can they make you hate me The gullible and easily led Manipulation of the educated A social media invention No gatekeeper to stop any bullying Are they manufacturing your consent? Is it just …
The Immortals
By Kimberley Pearson When I wasA angel amongst the godsKings and princesThe great and the good Does ambrosia taste sweetAre there petals at your feetDo you somersault on the grassWere you there for his last rights Ephemera, Ephemera And what of Apollo and MarsDid they ever find DionysesAnd what of PersephoneWill spring ever come again …
Leaving is a verb without meaning
By Kimberley Pearson If you look closely there is a tempest hidden beneath his eyes. I can read temperature from a distance. I can hear it in his tone or see it in his countenance. A cold front doesn’t always appear in the forecast. A hurricane can suddenly materialise on a whim. * From outside, …
The God Piece
God is the spirit that hovers over the Earth.His love moves on the breeze.His spirit moves on waves of soundLove is in every particle and cellEvery sense and every sound His being is both earth and sky, water and sun, animal and tree; the living blood of the universe. He is the air that we …
Rainforest: A Lovesong
Overhead the kalbun sings the song of the rainforest. Borrowing birdsong and melodies. Singing a song not its own, a mimic, an ever-changing soundtrack to the scenery below. * The mountain has three names. Dumburrin. Jambreen. Wongelpong. All are Tamborine. The mountain is viewed by some from the north, by some from the south and by …
Future female leaders
How women brought peace to bougainville Matrilineal and beautiful; women are the traditional leaders of Bougainville. Freda Talao, PNG mainland human rights lawyer and mediator, describes her first-hand account of the role of women played in bringing peace to Bougainville. In the words of Freda Talao, “Women care about people; men care about infrastructure.” “The …