HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Would you dance with the Devil in the pale moonlight?

Would you offer you throat to the wolf with the red roses?

THE TREE OF FORGIVENESS

Riddled with remorse I reach out.

Naked, I plead for forgiveness.

I turn to run & hide, ashamed -

afraid that I have been rejected....once again.

But you grab hold, & won't let go

don't let me go

....don't let me go

ETERNAL

"called back"

- epitaph of Emily Dickinson-

REMEMBRANCE

Cold in the earth - and the deep snow piled above thee,

Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave!

Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee,

Severed at last by Time's all severing wave?

Now, when alone, do my thoughts no longer hover

Over the mountains, on that northern shore,

Resting their wings where heath and fern-leaves cover

Thy noble heart for ever, ever more?

Cold in the earth - and fifiteen wild Decembers,

From those brown hills, have melted into spring:

Faithful, indeed, is the spirit that remembers

After such years of change and suffering!

Sweet love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee,

While the world's tide is bearing me along;

Other desires and other hopes beset me,

Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong!

No later light has lightened up my heaven,

No second morn has ever shone for me;

All my life's bliss from thy dear life was given,

All my life's bliss is in the grave with thee.

But, when the days of golden dreams had perished,

And even Despair was powerless to destroy;

Then did I learn how existence could be cherished,

Strengthened, and fed without the aid of joy.

Then did I check the tears of useless passion-

Weaned my young soul from yearning after thine;

Sternly denied its burning wish to hasten

Down to that tomb already more than mine.

And, even yet, I dare not let it languish,

Dare not indulge in memory's rapturous pain;

Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish,

How could I seek the empty world again?

- Emily Bronte

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO EEYORE

"Good morning, Pooh Bear," said Eeyore gloomily. "If it is a good morning," he said. "Which I doubt," said he.

"Why, what's the matter?"

"Nothing, Pooh Bear, nothing. We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it."

"Can't all what?" said Pooh, rubbing his nose.

"Gaiety. Song-and-dance. Here we go round the mulberry bush."

- A.A. MILNE-

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SPRING

SPRING has finally arrived in Melbourne ..........better late than never. It was wonderful to feel the sun on my face as I walked to the market this morning, it does my mood the world of good too.

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems."

~Rainer Maria Rilke

POOH, PIGLET & THE SWINE FLU

Don't you just love this!

10TH OCTOBER - "WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY"

World Mental Health Day on 10 October raises public awareness about mental health issues. The Day promotes more open discussion of illnesses, and investments in prevention and treatment services.

TODAY'S TREASURE

I had a brief but wonderful visit from my brother Steven & his wife Donna. The weather was perfect & we enjoyed a trip around Southbank & part of South Yarra.