Call to Prayer
by Catherine Briggs
As the mountain looms high
a whipbird’s call
invites us to join
nature in prayer.
Trees turn their leaves,
spin a sun blessed circle,
grey, green, gold,
on scribbly gum, anaphora.
In the shade
light filters
wildflowers
and memories.
Mount Beerburrum
draws distant rainbows:
the fire of lorikeets’ red beaks,
green wings and yellow breasts.
During summer months
grass trees, banksias
and yellow peas
flower here.
While Mount Tunbubudia
hosts black cockatoos
feasting on casuarina trees.
All praise nature in prayer.
© Catherine Briggs 2022
Catherine Briggs, a former librarian, English teacher and antique dealer, has recently published a poetry anthology, Looking Forward Looking Back, and is working on another. She is also writing a thriller set in London, Sicily and Hobart’s MONA about four friends on an innocent holiday who attract the attention of the Sicilian Mafia.
Catherine attended our Easter Writer’s Retreat at Namgyalgar in the Glass House Mts, Queensland.
Jan Cornall leads international writers retreats and workshops. See pics here.
Insta: @_writersjourney
