On a farm, on a heap of rock...

...someone has placed this simple figure.

Poem of Joy

(Best viewed reflectively in a calm high tide - oh Joy!)

Joy

I contemplate my life and others

I contemplate my haters

I contemplate my lovers

I contemplate the ups and downs

I contemplate the estuary at night

And the night’s encompassing sounds

I contemplate you and you and you

I contemplate ‘why’ and ‘how to’

The past and what’s to come

I contemplate a rising

And a setting sun

And the friends

And the start

And the end

I contemplate the Joy

Of it all

(Poem and driftwood art by Wayne of the Hill)

Malcontents, wowsers and killjoys not happy!

"Controversial driftwood sculptures that have been erected on the Riverton foreshore in recent weeks are not only stimulating discussion in the local community, they have led to four complaints to Environment Southland by people who see them as an eyesore."

"We have received four complaints about the driftwood structures and we are investigating them in the same way that we investigate every complaint"

Paddy Lewis @ 'Credo Quia Absurdum Est' must have a hot-line to Environment Southland to have posted this latest development in the 'Driftwood Outrage' saga that has Riverton buzzing.

Paddy asks, of the Gang of Four who are pestering the Councils with vexacious complaints about the driftwood moose,

"Shall we complain about the complainants wasting our rates dollars?"

Shall we indeed!
What do you think Riverton?

(I tip my hat to you Paddy and thanks also for the plug!)