Sunday, December 12, 2021

New Poetry by Robin Dale










The Journey Towards The Seen

bells sound
as if recovering
from vomiting

the back paddock
is moving
further away

across the iron fields
floats the ghost
of the pastor

some of the cows
are missing

this APC with 6 wheels
in camouflage
driven by a child
of 17

there is a large
black bull
in the herd now

bells sound again
a feeble reed

the pastor-ghost undresses
and edges on
unseen

the army squeezes
the blood out of
the trees
and their
unseen


- © Robin Dale 2021


Robin Dale is a UK born writer living in Ferntree Gully, a suburb of Melbourne. He emigrated to Australia in 1970 with his family at the age of eight years. He is fifty-nine now. In his late twenties, Robin Dale contracted schizophrenia which for many years was extremely debilitating. However in the past five years or so he has made a remarkable recovery and is now able to concentrate more fully on writing. He writes mainly poetry, generally on the eternal themes of love, death, transience, nature, and spirituality. Many of his poems are quite psychological in inspiration and content. He remains virtually unpublished.


3 comments:

  1. Well he is now! Fine poem that.

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    1. Thank you Jim. I may have to edit my bio!

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  2. I'm glad your poem is reaching a wider audience.

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