Green screen

When others take the long-laid bait
and plan to make short films, it's great.
When I am asked to instigate
the green screen setup I can't wait
to try out software, get a take
on how it works and then update.
I love the way I make my fate.
I love the way need fills my plate.


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Rolling Stones

Rolling Stones in Auckland - Easter Sunday


Yes, they rock. The crowd was 60 thousand
someone said. The screen was huge, and so I saw
his lips, his string-bean belly making history.
A concert - rock- I've never been to one before...
thought I only knew one song. But I was satisfied
and sang along with plenty more.
He cavorted, tiny action doll in shiny shirts
below the screen. The lighting show was jaw-
dropping, matching him in energy.
I used to fear self-induced hysteria. Bore
that I am. Judging from my cloud
with rabbit-minded logic. It made me pleasure poor.

A Good Book (Villanelle)

I'm lost and found in her; we've merged in mind.
Our memories combined as she confessed
between the lines, where time is redefined.

Her thoughts are mine and our emotions bind
us closer than true soul mates. I'm possessed.
I'm lost and found in her; we've merged in mind.

Her essence flows through me and I'm aligned
to heartbeats pulsing hope within her breast,
between the lines, where time is redefined.

I weep her joy, experience in kind
the pleasures she discovers; I'm her guest.
I'm lost and found in her; we've merged in mind.

I sob her pain and agonise, resigned
to facing fate as life somehow digressed
between the lines, where time is redefined.

As pages turn, more cameos unwind
but I can only guess at all the rest.
I'm lost and found in her; we've merged in mind
between the lines, where time is redefined.


Diz

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The Art of Conversation (sonnet)

The art of conversation withers when
the workplace fills with challenge. Theories aired
are well researched: Ten roosters crow, a hen
just quickly pecks the eyes from ideas shared.

Do leisure ladies practise repartee?
Are fitness walks and coffee mornings rich
with wit-inciting lingual artistry?
Or is their surface chatter nouveau kitsch?

Do web-based messageboards and email lists
provide a salon conversation pit?
Discussions written lack the nods and fists
or pearling eyes that glimpse an idea's grit.

Who'll learn the fencing skills to parry friction
performing in arenas of conviction?


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Easter

Good Friday was good. The house is cleaned,
my bag is packed and the chocolate fiend
inside me unwrapped and ate a marshmellow egg.
2 hot cross buns were warmed just right
and tomorrow we're catching an aeroplane flight.
We'll spend the day in Dunedin. Got eggs
to give my son when we tour his unicol home.
On Sunday we fly to Auckland. We roam
the country this easter, like rolling stones.
We'll see them in Auckland at Western Springs
then drive 6 hours, for Easter brings
my daughter to visit us. Poor travelling bones....

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Questions (pantoum)

Love the questions in your mind.
Wallow in them, Wonder 'Why?'
Answers drift until confined.
Let the questions stretch and sigh.

Wallow in them. Wonder why
your brainstorm only helps you ask.
Let the questions stretch and sigh.
Scratch the itch beneath the mask.

Your brainstorm only helps you ask
more questions - find a place to start.
Scratch the itch beneath the mask:
gather facts. (Subdue your heart.)

More questions! Find a place to start,
take an open-minded view,
gather facts, subdue your heart.
Questions undermine... Renew.

Take an open-minded view,
ignore habitual compromise.
Questions undermine. Renew
your purpose. Let them energise.

Ignore habitual compromise,
answers hide behind knee-jerks.
Your purpose? Let them energise;
between the facts, an answer lurks.

Answers hide behind knee-jerks.
Answers drift until confined
between the facts. An answer lurks:
love the questions in your mind.


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