… Maureen Clifford © The
Scribbly Bark Poet
Together they
twined – a celestial dance
an ephemeral
moment in time
A misty morning
wrapped its grey gauze around
as the two
lovers met and entwined.
Clear rain drops
hung silent – diamonds on the wire
the remnant of
late summer storms
small faceted prisms
- rainbows sparkling bright
that took on
another life form.
Together the
lovers blinded by the light
joined ‘neath cerulean blue skies
as the blue
sky cathedral shared blessings to earth
there were
none there who heeded their cries.
They chased
and they played crossing over each other
a ballet of
sorts on the ground
until, both
exhausted, they dropped and were still -
of the
willy-willy nothing found.
Footnote: In
Aboriginal myths, willy-willies represent spirit forms. They are often quite
scary spirits, and parents may warn their children that if they misbehave, a
spirit will emerge from the spinning vortex of dirt and chastise them. There is
a story of the origin of the brolga
in which a bad spirit descends from the sky and captures the young being
and abducts her by taking the form of a willy-willy.
