CLARE ROLFE

CLARE ROLFE

Safe Among The Daisies

Safe among the daisies

Spring skies buttered with lawn

A cat hides among seaside daisies

Spurting out not a single one out of place

No paws further – bees avoid pause

Magpies hyperbole

All players know their negation

Except a worm – positing escape

Clare Rolfe © 2019

Staring At The Sun

I jumped and caught the space

between you and me

I saw it was real solid

string dragging from a balloon

Each time I let go higher you rose

Brighter stronger

But the fall from high mass of noon

Was better than your birth

Thick with the vista of earth

The details of colour drenched my skin

Making me want to stare once again

Forgetting slow thoughts

Skateboard arcs question marks

waning memories of days past

As you rise and die

I jump again

A love story never ends

Clare Rolfe © 2020

Bushfire

When I woke the dawn was red

Redder than leaves in summer heat

It called the day to hurry toward deep night

So deep, the crescent’s of the moon

Wept their caution to us below

Watch my brother sun’s flame

For it never slumbers nor desires

It has no god or regret

Fire is its only law

Clare Rolfe © 2019/20 Bushfires summer 2019 /20

CLARE ROLFE

CLARE ROLFE: She is a self-published writer based in New South Wales Australia. She has dabbled in short stories and poetry from a young age. Her first published work in 2016 was a dystopian and philosophical novel called Ten Letters to Delacroix’s Tomb. It is one of a three novella series with common themes of Paris, art and philosophy. In 2019 she published the first book of a quintet fantasy series called Ascendant’s Tear – Legend of Caemeris. Her writing muses include the natural world, philosophy and science. Her poetry has been published in The Australia Times Poetry Journal and Our Poetry Archive, Somnia Blue and more recently ‘From the Ashes’ an anthology of poems dedicated to the bushfires affecting Australia this summer.