Insensitivity

OR to women?

Upon seeing three faiths collide.

You cover your women in cloth
or clothes meant to make invisible.
You hang a piece of metal around their necks
to make sure they remember their place.

You drape their hair with silk
to make them less appealing to you
You hide their beauty from the world
to guilt them into submission.

You flatten their breast and hide their bottoms
and take their self away
You burden them with the lust of men
and tell them to hide from life.

You fill their bellies with unbidden children
and cause them to ache in despair
You say they should pray for forgiveness
and it is you who took their children away.

You cover your head with a little piece of cloth
and drape your waist with material
and wind a piece of leather around
to remind you that you are chosen.

Show me how you can stand there naked
Side by side with another gender
without the lust, the distaste in your mouth
only clothed in the faith of your fathers

Under your naked muscles
Show me your differences now
show me how strong you really are
without the trappings of power.

All of you who rock and wail and pray
Self serving your soul to death
show me how your bodies are dust
instead of killing the other.

Expose yourselves to the sun and the rain
To your sisters and brothers beyond.
Expose the real reason for your hatred and fear
your littleness, your fear and your lust.

Imagine there's no religion.
No reason to hate and to kill.
Imagine there's no god
To push upon the weak and the ill.

No more cloths or cloaks or symbols
of division, derision or dependency
No more blame, no more hate
no more guilt or despair.

The World Is...

The world is poorer, less than, missing a part...because
today at 10.45 one of nature's true gentlemen, one of the world's great caring humans left today.

There is indeed one less person in the world to love because of the lovely Normie leaving.

Dear sweet man. Husband, lover, father, father-in-law, boxer, soldier, brick layer, helper, carer, visitor to the sick and a wonderful grandpa and great grandfather.

He was a friend to me and mine. An example of what a grandfather should be.
He was a rarity...he was a nice person.

I shall miss him.
I shall always love him.

Farewell.

Vale Norm -
1925 -2008

The Cat Has Landed

Teddy hid under the table on the dining room chairs..he knew something was up!

He was going home!

Back to Melbourne where the cold can eat your bones and the house is empty all day.

Poor poor Teddy.

The cat in the box has landed.

Six months I had him in my care and now he is gone.

I am not a cat person, but I would care for anything, anyone and any animal if asked.

Cheers.

Food for....????

Food for:
Oil,
Peace,
Thought!

Myanmar (Burma)!

Obviously there is no oil in Burma..remember, World, your behaviour to one country will be judge with your reaction to others.

Mother's Day

This burst of life, this rose
unfolding between battlements
This searing stinging scorching sense
that heralds a new dawn.

This rip, this tear, this slithering slide
Once into oblivion and into existence all
surrounding the smell, the sight, the sounds
Of life.

Coming in an explosion out of love
out of dark, out of safety
gut wrenching in its intensity and beauty
life changing, life altering, life giving life.

The bright lights dim, the sounds sharp and scoring
the hands grapple to grasp the squirming product
of love shared, received, reciprocated, reproduced
to hold to have to heave into the world.

Birds sound clear, the lights are lowered
In respect the world is smarter than before.
The private, the personal, the piquant passion
Is made manifest.

You who have not felt this love, this screeching squall
this warmth, this fullness, this emptiness, this time
You who are too busy to love, to light, to lick the skin
of new life
How sad!

You who think you are the centre
Were and are but only to me
You who think you know it all
Know nothing without this in your world
push as you might against the pricks.

and so I give to you me.