Shadows over Shadows - Wybalenna Graveyard Flinders Island

Shadows over Shadows..
fleetingly appearing
growing swiflty to pass,
enigmatically disappearing,
a transient silhouette
of a once living distant past Rhuari

This rather hauntingly beautiful spot I have talked about previously I visited again yesterday, and everywhere one looked there were shadows, literal and figurative. Its always a solitary place bleak with a stiff breeze and the whisper of voices of the wind in the she-oak needles. Here rest the souls of many of the last of the Tasmanian Aboriginal race and many early settlers.

There are so many stories in that small piece of land. My mind wanders to bring of vision of what the might be. Most of the graves are unmarked, only noticeable as a shadow on an archaeologists scan, or as a shadows over Tasmania's colonial past. A place of quiet contemplation that I return to again and again.....