Nari’s Hero Echo

(A true dolphin story from 2009)

Nari’s grown up

meeting lots of

humans every day.

They feed him fish

and watch as all

the dolphins swim and play.

Along with best-friend

Echo he will

entertain the guests.

By herding fish

round paddling feet

that tickle them in jest.

He’ll let the humans

stroke him as

for people, that’s a “must”.

It’s how we say

“I love you” and

that care’s gained Nari’s trust.

But recently

poor Nari got

a shark-bite on his head.

An injury

so serious

it could have left him dead.

For three whole days

the people feared

that Nari must have died.

He didn’t come

to visit them

and many people cried.

Then Echo brought

his injured friend

to Tangalooma beach.

And coaxed poor Nari

‘til he swam

within the people’s reach.

They gently lifted

Nari from his

darkened sea of gloom.

And flew him out

to Sea World where

their vets could treat his wounds.

Nari’s back at

Tangalooma

showing off his scars.

The people are

ecstatic.  He’s

Australia’s dolphin star!

Have a read of the link to an article below

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-02-17/nari-the-dolphin-recovers-after-surgery/299910

Meditations

Drifting on a tranquil lake

of mottled hopes and patterned faith.

Feeling peace and tenderness,

amidst your lucid water-ness.

And like a caterpillar nigh,

transforming to a butterfly,

I know there is a part of me

transcending through infinity.

This poem was inspired by the painting Melting Transitions Rise by Sharon Davson.

All four poems and pictures will feature in the artist’s biography DAVSON Art with Love and Graditude scheduled for the printers later this year.

Neo-natal humankind

is ceaseless of enquiring mind.

With science and technology

the stopper’s out dynamically.

From fire to furnaced energy

from steam to electricity.

We modify genetically

and glean the stars effectively.

We can’t slow down

this gain in pace.

The fascination’s

well in place.

Much to learn,

with good intention,

drives this mother

of invention

This poem was inspired by the crayon drawing Origins of the Future by Sharon Davson.

The poem was published in the Canadian school Textbook Nelson English 10 in 2012

Peace by Piece  

The world is getting smaller

and it’s breaking into bits.

Let’s put it back together

peace by piece

the puzzle fits.

Repairs can all be tended

by the tiniest of friends.

As working altogether

peace by piece

the puzzle mends.

This poem was inspired by the painting Together We Can by Sharon Davson.

The poem was published in the Malaysian school textbook English Form 1 by Pelangi Books in 2016

The Beauty of it All

All we can touch, and all we see

began in cosmic history.

How long ago came things to be?

Perhaps it was infinity.

All our surroundings hold in store

the clues to what has gone before.

A fascination long prevails

to understand time’s every tale.

Our tiny Earth holds precious gifts

as through the universe it drifts.

With organisms varied, rife,

are we alone in having life?

This special form of energy

enduring in its frailty,

bestows such beauty, all admired,

intelligence is awe-inspired.

This poems was inspired by the painting Called Away by Sharon Davson.

The image and poem were published in the Australian school textbook Macmillan English 7  in 2011

A group of giraffes 

is called a tower.

Each day, they sleep 

for less than an hour.

They’ll munch on leaves 

from acacia trees,

while ear-flicking flies 

in savannah’s breeze,

reaching up high 

with grace and ease …

giraffes shouldn’t need 

to climb those trees!

Celia Berrell