Four Poems by Terry Wheeler

 

safe

 

finding

combinations 

 

words to

open up

 

what’s kept

 

inside things

we hide

 

from that

thief time

 

we spin

 

the charms

believing 

 

we’re safe

from harm

 

 

luna

 

(1)

 

things night

brings not

 

chased away

by daylight

 

still loom

 

after leaving

the bedroom

 

drip of a

tap following 

 

foot steps

 

heavy with

weight of

 

last night’s 

moon

 

(2)

 

not all

can feel

 

an awe

for life

 

reeling

 

with this

planet’s 

 

blue moves

pull of a

 

full moon

 

skin too 

thin sensing

 

a miracle 

within

 

 

the solid mandala 

 

glass taws

arthur’s

 

solid

mandalas

 

open doors

 

to a boyhood 

where air’s

 

barley sugar

sticky in a

 

paper bag

 

and much

of the world

 

has just

been born

 

 

after the gold rush

 

queue to

evacuate

 

little faith

big decision 

 

juxtapose

 

a storm

before dawn

 

waking up

from a

 

bad dream

 

neil young

sings mother

 

nature on

the run

Terry Wheeler - After graduating from law school in the late 1980s Terry worked in the Australian public service for decades. He was inspired to write after seeing Michael Dransfield poems in The Australian newspaper when a teenager. Terry has been published in Australia and abroad since retiring. He lives in Brisbane when not travelling.