EVIDENCE OF LIFE

This collection of poems, written over the past twelve years, features David Morisset’s reflections on the physical world and its effects on mood, memory and experience.

Locations visited include parts of Australia, America, Iran and Thailand. The backdrops vary from urban terrains to predominantly natural settings and, in several cases, the poems draw on recollections of times long past.

David's verses encourage us to be acutely aware of our surrounds and to value the ways life allows us to interact with our environment regardless of whether it showcases natural design or human ingenuity or a blend of both.

The collection is available here at Amazon.

BUTTERFLY SKIES

The butterfly skies are back,

With clouds that remind me

Of long hot summers past,

When the weather was innocent

And the heat made us warm.

The butterfly skies are dappled blue,

Flicked from an artist’s brush,

Playfully sprayed on a canvas

Of off-white stretched full-width

Across an endless clear horizon.

The butterfly skies were ever there,

Taken for granted like morning,

Teeming with fertile sunshine

That kissed life into all the living,

And bid them worship the light.

But where are the butterflies now?