comfort movies

he calls them comfort flicks video tapes for the VCR movies made back in the golden days of contract stars and starlets sausage factory produced scenarios for the stars Mitchum and Taylor and Bogart Bacall and Hepburn and Hepburn and Tracey Wayne and Bronson Monroe romance and adventure the wild west and Atticus Finch sirens …

goodbye autumn

today is a day of blue skies and crescent moons clouds sailing in the sunlight the green of grass is shining bright and back yards kiss the sky all arranged this cold cold day to kiss the last day of Autumn goodbye goodbye not to mention a salutary Ibis (shhh) (shhh) don't mention that © …

heaven glimpsed (leaves down)

oak tree time has come let your leaves fall down oak tree their green is gone let your leaves fall down I see the sky up there glimpse heaven between your fingers so open up to the blue and let your leaves come down © Frank Prem, 2017 May 2017 Poem #33: goodbye autumn

breathing their affection

they badger each other like terrier dogs veering between relentless repetition and half-snarled rejoinders she’s deaf he’s been worrying about her and the noise and fury is a kind of statement of affection as we drive home from surgical 2 where the doctor has finally showed up to sign an official release and as we …

deep breathing

fire in the heater footy on the box chilling in the lounge with my legs up it’s a reclining chair and I am fully laid-back look outside the window shows rain transformed to sleet now to snow blowing around like leaves down from their autumn trees I took the lid off the red wine I …

an avian reminder of cold

a pretty scene the upper corner of the window is aglow sunshine is radiated off pointillised wattle blossom it is the movement of a bird that has caught my eye drawn attention to the scene as it flits between wattle-yellow and the faded red of a persistent grevillea there is a stark contrast between this …

community health in the new west

it is a strong attractive facade in cream brick solid authoritative and welcoming it seems to make a statement we are here for you we will care we are yours we will stay long outside walls are partially concealed close-planted creepers and tall shrubs a screen against close examination but the inside is bouncing steps …

on the milky sea

there is a tiny speck of boat on the calm of a milky sea that I am warming to make my coffee and as the currents start to move beneath the surface the little boat up-anchors and commences to sail around froth-and-bubble islands that come and go in unexpected bursts of white writhing ire that …

nothing

my empty thought is a void of mind an instant drained for the duration bliss oh bliss a moment of not at all a moment just one moment of emptiness endured and in the next I can think again with joy of nothing © Frank Prem, 2017 May 2017 Poem #29: quickly: a taper

goodnight

the days are taken up almost absent-mindedly with tasks of work and with idle hours papers to read lunch to be consumed coffee evenings are a greater challenge little to do but endure the bright flicker and booming sound of the television the moment of going to bed delayed a little too long almost as …