Old

Photo of a branch of dried up, shrivelling fern leaves.

Drying up fern leaves
browning, crumbling, shrivelling
old age comes to all

Chariots

Photo of a sign board on the base of the One Tree Hill. The sign reads, “No buses beyond this point.”

Huffing I walk up;
no chariots to heaven
or volcanic hills.

Bonus

photo of the Auckland sky scape lit up by the sunset

Sun-kissed cityscape;
happily homebound at five,
an autumn bonus.

Not trees

Photo of the Auckland Sky Tower flanked on all sides by tall trees.

Boxing our thoughts in
we build fences around us
but we are not trees.

Cake

Photo of lush green mountains in New Zealand

Multi-layer cake;
land of volcanic mountains,
folds in on itself.