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Rebecca Cook's avatar

Lovely (and I'm blushing!) I'm so glad you two are happy beyond happy. Dale and I have known so few couples who experience what you are living; we often want to explain/show others how to be happy, then we realize that there's good luck, then there's bad luck. We are so so so so so lucky in love. My blessings upon you both, big bucketfuls of the very best water available in all the world, which I'm pretty sure is close to you right now.

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David Kirkby's avatar

Ahhh.... that is such a happy, warm, wonderful comment, my friend. Thankyou!

Some of that very best water in the world is falling on us right now - a day of heavy rain washing in from the Pacific, drenching the trees around our home and swelling the river. A day to just burrow down and enjoy the sound and scent of the rain, and a feeling of connection with the universe. Exchanging words with good people, here in this strange electronic underworld, feels like the best way too spend my morning.

Lover and Best Wishes from us both - Dave and Meg :)

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Rebecca Cook's avatar

If I close my eyes, I believe I am sitting in your house, with you, watching the rain.

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David Kirkby's avatar

Yay! I'll boot up the espresso machine and make us both a mug of coffee....

D :)

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Martin Mc Carthy's avatar

All of these five haiku together form a wonderful set of love poems in which the feelings are so strong and deep that one could only say, "What a blessing it is to love, and to feel myself beloved on earth!" Well done, Dave. You've made my day already.

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David Kirkby's avatar

Oh, dear Martin! Thankyou!

I hope your day got even better!

Very Best Wishes - Dave :)

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Cristoffa's avatar

Thanks David fur the lovely Haiku.

First taught this style by then elderly Brother Cyprian in the early 70s at my Marist school.

Quite a dominant educator even then; a Scholar and a Sportsman (esp Rugby).

Out of a senior class of about 12, managed to get 2 commonwealth scholarships when he taught my dad, and he one of them.

And love the couple shot and float plane pic.

Quite a few small plane flights over the years. Favorites being a DHC old school float plane one one from Rose Bay over Sydney Harbour, and a flight over Franz Joseph Glacier in NZ in a Pilatus Porter (snagged as v low cost as pilot going to pick up alpine skiers anyway).

My wife . I think checking that my life insurance policy paid up.

More to this someday. About Sunderlands and Catalinas.

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Cristoffa's avatar

And now see my misspell of "for", but can't work out how I did it. The keys are not close together even, but am using a AUD 7.00 item. The plane i flew in was a DHC-2 Beaver from rose Bay.

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David Kirkby's avatar

Hi Cristoffa

Thankyou for the compliment! :)

I couldn't decide what photo of us to post, but chose the floatplane because it was recent (two weeks ago) and because I also love small planes! In fact I had the good fortune to fly from Newcastle to Rose Bay and back a few times, when the seaplane service was running - about 15 years ago - (all paid for by my employer). I once saw a Catalina land and take off - many years ago, on Lake Macquarie, near the old Rathmines Catalina RAAF base....

Best Wishes - Dave :)

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Cristoffa's avatar

Hello David, think I did do maybe three Beaver flights from Rose Bay, but a long time ago. Absolute fun and scenic views.

Familiar with Rathmines. My father in law, briefly stationed there to train on (Black) Cats, till posted more forward to Doctor’s Gully in Darwin and then further. Took him there as an elder to revisit. His squadron flew one of the longest early strikes (we had nothing else to fly that far then) to mine Manila Bay post Pearl Harbour and Darwin Japanese attacks . They had to land on a deserted coral atoll to refuel from US submarine delivered fuel to make it there and back.

Sort of remember the Cat for a different reason entirely though . My sort of “first” Kindy GF, None Tonwah, lived on a unwinged Cat houseboat on the Ross River in T’ville while her parents renovated the former Japanese Consulate (relic of pearl industry times). It was cool.

They had an interesting WW2 Dutch Indon refugee story to do with flying boats also, but luckily were not at Broome.

Tom had previously flown in Sunderlands in the UK and in the Atlantic and Med with some adventure too.

Regards.

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David Kirkby's avatar

Hi Cristoffa

That's fascinating! I had not heard of the Catalina long range operation to Manila Bay. It's hard to comprehend what a bold and frightening journey that must have been - including the huge uncertainty and risk of the refuelling component.

The Catalina hull houseboat would have been incredible. I wonder what happened to it?

Best Wishes - Dave :)

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rena's avatar

Stunning

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The Sea in Me    (Síodhna)'s avatar

Lovely David!

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David Kirkby's avatar

Hi Síodhna

Thankyou! May your weekend in far away Ireland be wonderful! We would love to see Dublin again.....

Best Wishes - Dave (and Meg) :)

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The Sea in Me    (Síodhna)'s avatar

Let's do that so!

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Richard Blaisdell's avatar

Sea plane fly

Wings open wide

hold tight love.

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Kiki's avatar

🚨 Gorgeous couple alert!!! 🚨

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David Kirkby's avatar

🙈

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Kiki's avatar

😂

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Mai Suga's avatar

Love haiku are my favorite types of haiku to read. Placing five of the haiku as a set was really nice:)

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David Kirkby's avatar

Hey Mai!

I'm so glad you liked it. I do tend to write a lot of love poetry, because I am a fortunate man, and there are so many ways to write about love.

Also - Haiku form is a wonderful discipline, forcing a distillation of thought.

Best Wishes - Dave :)

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Mai Suga's avatar

Hi Dave,

It really makes my day reading your newsletters. You write different kinds of poetry and you seem to be truly enjoying the process. 

I agree. Haiku makes me focus on what is essential. I like the simple rhythm it creates.

Best wishes to you, too.

Mai

P.S. May I say….You two are a gorgeous couple!

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David Kirkby's avatar

Oh! Thankyou! We are extremely lucky to have each other. M is my best friend and lover and always will be so.

I do enjoy writing - though it is also often an intensely emotional experience for me. There are certain forms that come more easily to me than others but I vary my work in style and form - because that prevents me falling into predictability and becoming boring - to myself as much as anyone else.

Very Best Wishes - Dave :)

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Kate Bown's avatar

Absolutely beautiful Dave. Love oozing between each haiku. And each works so wonderfully on its own too.

Thanks for sharing.

Love is all you need!

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Kate Bown's avatar

And perhaps a few nice words about love too!

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David Kirkby's avatar

Oh! Dear Kate...

I just restacked your comment as a Note. You will see why!!!

And ... I am profoundly fortunate, in the love M and I share.

Best Wishes - Dave :)

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School of Blue's avatar

Wonderfully uplifting, Dave. All the beet to you and Meg.

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David Kirkby's avatar

Thanks Richard! We are back home now, burrowing down into our place by the river as rain streams in from the Pacific....

Hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Best Wishes - Dave :)

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Susan Nordin's avatar

Thank you for the uplift! Wonderful and tender. Such sweet offerings to your love.

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David Kirkby's avatar

Thankyou, Susan!

So many things to write about.... but love is still my favourite :)

Best Wishes - Dave

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