Michele Elliot #39 Skylines (after Lizz Murphy Poem 381)

 

skylines treetops

blue day heat wing flutter

I’m flagging

Lizz Murphy Poem 381 Skylines 8

In the day blackjay just ahead In the night Corvus somewhere above So many stories Perched on a shoulder Whispered in an ear Fallen bird Soul from the sky Who was your message for Will they see it in the stars

   Lizz Murphy 

for the Skylines collaboration with Michele Elliot

Happy New Year everyone — just catching up

Lizz Murphy Poem 380 Skylines 7 (after Michele Elliot #38)

The moon wanes stars fade

I’m convinced I am on track

find my ankles swathed in stripped bark

resort to torchlight find my bearings

I have roamed westward pulled up before

ploughing into a broadening eucalypt

I right wheel and a Froglet

risks a leap across my path

and even tonight with

the new moon surprisingly golden

stars rampant in all directions

singing me from dark to dark

still I cannot read the sky

Lizz Murphy

after Michele Elliot's Skylines 7/#38 

 

Michele Elliot #38 Skylines 7

and a misshapen platform to land on
the lightest touch
heart tremble

Michele Elliot #37 Skylines 6 (after Lizz Murphy Poem 379)

I tell the moon the time is now

she rises in magnificent silence

I ask the tree for shelter

in her green shawl

Lizz Murphy Poem 379 Skylines 6 (after Michele Elliot # 35)

I ask the stars is there ever a right moment no good asking the moon it just questions the tides The moths are waking They leave the cool of cave take to the night skies travel the migratory route Lay their eggs Die The pupae hatch navigate the same path to the Alps gather in the billions cavern cavity crevice On the way they may divert block the light

Lizz Murphy # 375 & Michele Elliot SKYLINES 1

Posting on behalf of artist Michele Elliot (a 2016 Project 366 month-guest) and myself. We are experimenting with an online collaboration of words and images over the next few weeks as part of Belconnen Arts Centre's One Sky Many Stories project. Great to be here.

SKYLINES 1

© Michele Elliot

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skylines treetops
clouds scratch flag

Michele Elliot


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scratch

a stellar creature

rubs its back

against the sky

Lizz Murphy