Day-Dream-Drinking-Declassified.

Times slip into distortions.

My dreaming-drinking,

Days, try in their awaking,

Memories of control.

Who shall be remembered then?

You with all your vile?

Them with the understanding of angels?

What does it matter anyway?

For memory is generational.

As the generations diminish,

Into pictures, stories

of history.

Will you and I be a pause?

But for the breath of life!

Do we not fade?

Pete JJ

Blue Mountains Botanic Garden Mount Tomah DARUG COUNTRY ↷

Dharug people have lived in this area for over 60,000 years. Dharug land is from the Blue Mountains in the west to the sea in the east, from the Hawkesbury River in the north to Appin in the south.

↗ Unwisdom Two Bothers Burning (again) ↷

Unwisdom is a storytelling (a Dreaming) a landmark identifying its purpose: A Spiritual Sacred Place. Traditional indigenous communications of storytelling include songs, stories, and locations, verbally passed from generation to generation. My poem is a connection to the Dyarubbin peoples before colonisation in 1788.

A Dreaming is also a poem, spoken, sung or a lesson of indigenous history connected to the ancestors of the land, and the spirits representing creation. Dreamings’ are a continuum of spiritual connections within a collective, they never diminish and are a thread into each new generation’s dreaming's.