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 He remains virtually unpublished.