Con-temporary Poetry
July 6, 2009 at 7:06 pm | In australian poetry, contemporary poetry, poetry, writing | 10 CommentsTags: contemporary poetry, haha, poetry
All poems are experiments, experiments in experience
all are equally difficult to see in their entirety
equally easy to read for sounds and subtle thrills.
When a simple tale of the honesty of water spills/ over
slipways and invades the footpath canvas of street artists,
and Banksy’s anonymity runs graffiti over frames,
Western minds
which delight in dis/section into categories
sticky plaster labels, con-temporary
, a temporary con, and in the
absence of sensible syntax
while somewhere between giggling and tummyful
sits sunonhead under banyan trees
integrating in mysterious digestion
the wondrous simplicity of pastries.
F tattoo (in G, is for horses)
July 4, 2009 at 9:04 am | In australian poetry, contemporary poetry, genre isn't dead yet but it should be, poetry, writing | 15 CommentsTags: absolut'ly free Australian sentences, australian poetry, con-temporary poetry, F., poetry
Fear. and freedom from it.
looking in mirrors and startling
fantastical modifications in form
with no apparent function
p is for pointless alliteration
without contrasting consonants
F is for free
to give it all away
and go sailing.
F tattoo (in G, is for horses)
July 4, 2009 at 8:58 am | In australian poetry, contemporary poetry, genre isn't dead yet but it should be, tshirt | 1 CommentTags: contemporary poetry, F tattoo, poetry, writing
Fear. and freedom from it.
looking in mirrors and startling
fantastical modifications in form
with no apparent function
p is for pointless alliteration
without contrasting consonants
F is for free
to give it all away
Do not claim,
June 30, 2009 at 6:24 pm | In antihaiku, memoirs, sheer selfindulgence | 24 CommentsTags: calibans whiskers, outrageous moustachios
Do not claim to be a musician
in other people’s eyes
nor insert rhyme nor reason
if you cannot improvise
the way the surf breaks now and then,
between ocean and sunrise.
when the meditation fails
June 29, 2009 at 6:42 pm | In australian poetry, contemporary poetry, poetry, sheer selfindulgence, writing | 17 CommentsTags: Art Tatum, contemporary poetry, poetry, writing
and the melancholic lady fully medicated
sleeps
and he forgets where the tiger what
it was
he shuffles half asleep into some
nightmare cupboard
of whispers and enemies lurking
by firelight at solstice
simply to imprint some unique mark
puts on his brown bowler hat
and says where’s Art?
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