October 18-21, 2020
The Echo Point which is home to popular Three Sisters Folklore at Katoomba in The Blue Mountains is one of my often frequented tourists spot. There I noticed a few sandstone pillars dedicated to famous Australian locals who made it known through the publication of their poetry.
Even the poets are allured to the mesmerising mystical beauty of the mountains. Nothing has escaped their flowing thoughts, working minds and inkful pens. Denis Kevans is given honour from his work The Passing Mist.
PASSING MIST
Denis Kevans
Parched orchids smile to the passing mist,
Mist that’s the memory of a vanished ocean,
Mist that’s tears that have often fallen,
Gleaming on the rock.
Gleaming on the rock
That is the face you cannot remember.
Who is walking in the mist with their sandals in their hand?
Who is crouching to see the orchid smile?
Who pauses to hear the bracelet of notes
Thrown by the harmonica bird at the covered sun?
Whose voices are under the waterfall?
Whose voices are muffled by the mist?
Whose voices drift with the white mist
Passing, like the ghosts of ocean waves?
Source: Blue Mountains Nature - Culture and Literature
Date: October 18-21, 2020
