Am I still seen? — Who am I? This person who looks from a mirror to see A reflection that others now think of as me. I wonder, when they glance, do they see who I am? Or just mother, a wife, a granny, great-gran? A person transitioned from one phase to another, A toddler, school-girl…

Kaleidoscope of colours — When Dreaming Time became reality, The Dreamers wept, mourning lost immortality And yet … With life there came a here, and there, and glorious space between — Mountains high, valleys low colours never seen! And tho’ the peaceful void was mourned — the gift of life rejoiced, First People found themselves…

A soppy fairy story of rebirthing carrots — Once upon a time there lived a pretty fairy named Kristine. She lived in a beautiful magic(al) mushroom house in the Enchanted Forest. Her favourite summertime hobby was to fly up to the roof of her fungal home and watch rainbows after a storm had passed through. Because her house…

All fall down! — I have done lots of dumb stuff in my life! I know — you find that difficult to believe. Well, you can believe this — I’m pretty sure I passed the klutz gene on to my children, and to my husband and friends. (By osmosis). Now, I don’t expect you…

That pesky sheila* has me doin’ some hard yakka* — The band’s back together! Krystal Morgan made a comeback album, “Wrecking Balls”, and somehow she involved me, Hollie Petit, Ph.D. and Kristen Stark. More to the point, we’re wrecking stuff, again! Wahoo! …

From a weird old bird holding a balloon — We have ducks with nuts in the land down under, But we don’t have nuts on geese, And I don’t have a clue who you are, But happy birthday, Reese! If we’d e’er been introduced, And had been pleased to meet, In hours I’d never know your face, From your buttocks, or your…

Where the heck did I go wrong? — Five years ago me washer broke And though I wed a lovely bloke — Been outa work for all those years, Now rests on sofa swillin’ beers. So, on Mund’ys — just once a week, I traipse along the bubblin’ creek Singin’ lament — “Dead Washer” song Lug laundry bag to billabong…

I stuck all of the words on your screen with spit — I am trying to please two distinct factions of readers with this piece. For all the twelve-word aficionados, I have bolded the references. For all the morons who might miss the “wet” words, I have italicized them. Breaking News! CNN headlines: “Celebrated rapper, Aqua Duct, was found dead in her shower cubicle this morning…

It’s enough to give anyone a headache! — I was born on August the 5th, which makes me a Leo if you’re interested in that kind of stuff. I sort of am because I’ve seen a lot of whacky things that people can’t understand and when I tell them about it, they roll their eyes and screw their…