Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all the Tuesday Poets and my Blog readers

I hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and a safe, fun holiday break.

I'll leave you all with the title poem of my recent published poetry collection and let's hope in 2015 we can do more to heal our planet and live more in harmony with our fellow creatures and with Mother Nature.

GREEN GECKO DREAMING

I was here before you and after

the Big Heat

I will be here after you.

While you have lived,

I have struggled to live.

Some of you have been my guardians,

some have been my enemies,

but your ferocious machines will fall silent

and the insects will return.

Even my enemies will ride the sky again

as the smudges of your smoke

are wiped clear to blue.

Your footprints will wash away

and your domination become a folk tale,

ghost stories told to frighten our children.

We have kept the faith

and, through the ages,

our stories have kept our hopes alive.

In our Dreaming,

you vanish

and Gondwana is once more.