Shivering Cockatoo on a full moon
A day shimmies in, your feathers ruffle with winter air. A full moon hangs behind you, dissected by wires, competing with a cold dawn...
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Clare L Rolfe
- Dec 24, 2023
- 2 min
Storm among the grass
Wingecarribee River walk video CL Rolfe L’Orage parmi l’herbe À l’aube, un lever de soleil, clair dans nos esprits d’une bonne journée....
Clare L Rolfe
- Oct 20, 2023
- 1 min
I am an Albatross
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a classic poem with its own sense of the epic like that of the Albatross....
Clare L Rolfe
- Aug 30, 2023
- 1 min
Home in August
On the train home, there is a beautiful sky on the cusp of spring. Intermittent clouds bruised with fire-licks of the setting sun. The...
Clare L Rolfe
- Aug 7, 2023
- 1 min
Untitled
I walk along the quiet paths Among the secret chairs where thought rests Into the sky and underground Don't ask me to show you Let them...
Clare L Rolfe
- Jun 24, 2023
- 2 min
Horizon
What is a horizon? Silence beyond my sight. Where the unknown, dreams and possibilities, collide, plumes scattering the dawn. Not the...
Clare L Rolfe
- Apr 22, 2023
- 1 min
World Earth Day
Earth and Us Dedicated to William Shakespeare Venus and Adonis Who are we each of us? We are born of you and yet you are not in need of...
Clare L Rolfe
- Feb 14, 2023
- 1 min
A Rose -
Forehead of the Rose - Rene Char Despite the open window in the room of long absence, the odour of the rose is still linked with the...
Clare L Rolfe
- Feb 2, 2023
- 1 min
Entangled with a moon
Constant through the window Half open, with February breeze slick tyres humming the twilight oil soft flesh of summer arms billow crisp...
Clare L Rolfe
- Dec 23, 2022
- 1 min
A pause -
When one commits to writing then inevitably time is spent writing rather than reading. But I have enjoyed a few morsels this year which...
Clare L Rolfe
- Oct 31, 2022
- 1 min
Death sends its condolences with some flowers
A facetious tribute to Hallows Eve - as part of the festivities surrounding death in all its glory and a bit of sugar helps alleviate...
Clare L Rolfe
- Oct 22, 2022
- 1 min
New Release
As an interlude from Ange and Nekoda, who I believe will be touching down soon, I thought I'd write a few short stories inspired by a...
Clare L Rolfe
- Sep 22, 2022
- 1 min
Solitude of Spring
Solitude of Spring Quiet sun among frosty pebbles Tenderly bursting on the edge of heat Rain clouds gather dust to them Dulling my sight...
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- Jun 5, 2022
- 1 min
Primordial
A thin call echoes in silence It is sweet in its asking The listener folded in memories of primordial time a quiet wetland after rainfall...
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- Apr 8, 2022
- 2 min
Droughts & Flooding H20
Droughts & Flooding H20 - C L Rolfe In the east snails become tyrants on tin rooves Worms are looking for higher ground Wolf spiders...
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- Jan 26, 2022
- 1 min
LOC3 - Descendant's Throne
Baachelaus had watched the eons pass in the company of darkness. A whisper floated just beyond the reach of the god's sight, the voice...
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- Nov 28, 2021
- 3 min
Dune - Arrakis, Desert Planet
I needed to blog a personal commentary on this epic piece of Sci-Fi. The new film adaptation of the sci-fi series Dune written by Frank...
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- Nov 14, 2021
- 3 min
Treebeard is calling
A seed gatherer’s ode to a boab tree I came by sea, as hungry as cement, in search of the ancient boab’s seeds. I knew they stood beneath...
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- Oct 15, 2021
- 1 min
Clare L Rolfe on BookTrib!
Acendant's Tear was recently reviewed over on BookTrib! BookTrib.com is a news source for people who love books, want to find out what’s...
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- Aug 21, 2021
- 1 min
No machine guns in Antarctica
-35 in the dead heart of winter Shuffling emperors guard their eggs more than jewelled crowns The women, they have gone, to have their...
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