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Meet me

Meet me in the courtyard under the shade of the lovers tree, We’ll picnic on salmon and fine wine, just the birds just you and me, As we lay there I’ll whisper sweet poetry in to your dainty ear, On second thoughts lets forget this, I’m off to the pub for a beer. “Well […]

Reasons to be Cheerful [Part 2]

10 July – 2 August 2008 Chalk Horse Gallery in Surry Hills New works by Ruark Lewis and Stuart Fleming. Exhibition opening from 6 to 8pm next Thursday the 10th. Ruark Lewis (Front Gallery and Project Space) AN INDEX OF KINDNESS “An exhibition is formed by things in […]

Poetry Corner #1

I’ve always been a huge fan of the work of Paul Henning, but I wasn’t expecting to find this gem featuring Dennis Hopper. It gives me an excuse to work on the problems of hosting/embeding flash video. I can generate .flv files with no problems, but the player part of the equation […]

Poem by Michelle McGrane II

She Walks On Water It is dusk. The air is heavy with salt spray and kelp. The seagull’s tongue is dumb. Dark wings hide the face of the madonna on the beach. Twin silver starfish lift a long skirt, reveal pale knees, a cerulean scarf flutters in the breeze. Unseen mercury eels seeth in her […]

An Elegant Epigraph: Yusef Komunyakaa

“For the poet, each word represents sound and meaning; the music of meaning is shaped by words that fall left or right of a single word. Each word is an increment of the whole. Perhaps we are drawn to poetry because language vibrates (is an action), and we seem to search still for a […]

Midnight Poetry

Pain to See I cover my eyes with my hands, fingers tight together, peekaboo. Except I do not remove them ever. Refusing to see, eyes closed also, an extra barrier. I have learned to feel my way, picking my path, dragging my feet, following my nose, picking up my own scent trail. Hiding in […]

CookiePuss

When I was 7 years old, I got my very first Cookie Puss for a birthday cake. For 8 consecutive years, my birthday always consisted of a homemade card from my mom with her god awful (but sweet and sentimental) poetry and a Cookie Puss ice cream cake. […]

Poetry Friday — Better Late than Never

We are just home from the Best. Fireworks. Ever. I kid you not. We were out in our canoe on Ladybird Lake. I had to ride like Cleopatra in the middle of the boat due to my tweaky back. Hubby and girls paddled and we found ourselves amidst […]

Leicester style

Now pursuing truth I make new moves and am more business-like … I must learn more I’ll take to interstices I’ll live in the wall that divides I’ll watch with my bespectacled unblinking eye I’ll see all sides It’s two years since the death of Leicester Kyle, who […]

Discover the Llyn Peninsula

Stretching from the peak of Snowdon to Bardsey Island (or Ynys Enlli - the Island of the Tides), the Llyn Peninsula is a unique and beautiful part of North Wales, renown for its natural charm and mild climate. So spectacular is its coastline that many thousands of acres have been protected by […]