Tag Archives: Contemporary Australian Poetry
Live from the Audio Vault #7: Empty Garden
Tomorrow, I will be getting together with Sheish to have a run through a new set of poems, so thought I would share an old one with you. And with the recent floods and the cool change this one seemed … Continue reading
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Blood Wisdom
the news to my left over mud flats and sea grass beds was flight: thousands of terns gathering the order written in blood: broken down, transferred through membrane: a congregation twitching with the possibility of air: beyond the dispersal silver … Continue reading
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Luminous
the light shows through you as dusk when you arch bat-sudden beneath my palms: let them bring you to that longing shape easy as blood ********** This is the other half of the poem I wrote as part of last … Continue reading
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In Depth
With one cup of light left in the sky the fisherman sits at the edge and sinks his line in the clarity of water. In that moment he is part sky but with depth the mind loses its vertebrate thoughts: … Continue reading
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Citrus Infusion
Gabrielle Bryden is currently infusing her blog with all things citrus, posting poems and recipes from some of her favourite bloggers. My poem, Orange from Ocean Hearted was featured today, so please do click on over and have a read. … Continue reading
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Goodnight, Spider
The daddy-long- legs, as if bitten twists in the heavy rain, stretches legs that tip-toe across ground, but take on no weight or traction: in the frenzied dim of things, doubles over, eight eyes fixed on silver abdomen, kissing it … Continue reading
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Traveling West
The sorghum field is red with seed heavy ears spangling into bells of light We have come as far as words will take us, now it is time to disperse the wonder of our gain ***** I am just back … Continue reading
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Mullet Fishermen
yawn out of the silver skein of dreams their turtle-nosed boats, keel-hauled across sand from the green gills of dune grass, nose into wash. Nets hung like webs between pine boughs spread out for corking in the starving air are … Continue reading
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Enter: The Zen Space
The Zen Space has just published their Winter 2012 Showcase and I am excited to have a handful of ‘zen firecrackers’ featured. So why not head on over and let your mind inhabit The Zen Space… there is stillness and … Continue reading
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2012
Like a poet, whose eyes have long stared at the blank page, those Christmas lights blink tentatively. It is January we throw ourselves at the feet of — the hot water music of a late storm, a post- party-noose, tightening … Continue reading
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