EVERY PURPOSE

David Morisset's novel — Every Purpose — is available for purchase as an eBook or as a paperback at Kindle and Amazon.  The back cover blurb reads as follows:

Many people believe that humanity’s very existence is an outcome of chance and, yet, ancient wisdom literature insists that our lives have meaning and there is a time for every purpose. David Morisset’s novel tells the life story of Duncan Gashford, an Australian baby boomer. The narrative mimics some of the characteristics of a biography but it adopts as its chapter sequence the times of a famous passage in the book of Ecclesiastes — birth, death, love, hate, war, peace, laughter, weeping, and the rest. Duncan is transformed by the cumulative impacts of his times and by his reactions to people and events. His metamorphosis sees a hard-working family man become someone else entirely.

ETERNITY

I’m going back

To a place I’ve never been

In the countryside

Where the trees are evergreen.

I won’t live there

But it’s where I’ll always be,

Watching sunsets

And hearing the sounds of the sea.

It doesn’t know me,

Yet it sees my real worth.

There is nothing there,

Just a moment of rebirth.

THE SONG OF THE MAGPIES

Today I heard the song of the magpies

And the sun flared like brilliant firelight.

The sky was as blue as fair maidens’ eyes.

A zephyr, delicate like butterflies,

Kissed my face and fled like a cheeky sprite.

Today I heard the song of the magpies.

The grass was as green as gods might devise

And recently mowed to a sporting height.

The sky was as blue as fair maidens’ eyes.

Shops on the hill stocked tourists’ merchandise

And youngsters sipped sweetened coffee on site.

Today I heard the song of the magpies.

Cars jostled and beeped — compact and kingsize —

Silver metal shone like an armoured knight.

The sky was as blue as fair maidens’ eyes.

The birds warbled with piping and faint cries,

Their plumage was stark — tailored black and white.

Today I heard the song of the magpies.

The sky was as blue as fair maidens’ eyes.