Australian Poetry Library

Australian Poetry Library
A great resource for poets, students, teachers. Needs filling in some.
http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/ Poetry Library
Acknowledgement: Thanks to Andrew Burke at High Spirits

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Helen Hagemann's new e-book "The Joyous Lake"

Open publication - Free publishing at ISSUU - More Australian

You can view my new e-book at
http://members.iinet.net.au/~helen.hagemann

and also at

http://issuu.com/evangelyne/docs/par_ecrit/

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Poem for the Day - Good Wine is a Familiar Creature

Good Wine is a Familiar Creature

                   

When the sun goes down we meet

                   for an evening meal.

We bring three bottles of wine, one champagne

              their depth soon to be released     absolutely

                enjoyed           on the tongue

Unsure of which

                     succulent dish               arrives first,

we pop the champagne, froth in the glass

                                                    bringing us back to life.

Curried chicken with rice has a status of its own

         strikingly familiar

                                   with the one at home.

The waitress brings the pork, then the fish. Something

              spills on the table as minute as a bead.

                                      It rolls under the carousel

 and is gone.

                       White wine is the fruity kick of glass.

Three of us are very drunk.

             The fourth, who drives us home, who doesn’t drink,

                            enjoys the evening just the same

                and marbles              

                       the glazed eye of a fish

                                 through the wet space

                                            of the coffee table

spilled with roiled droplets…

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Poem for the Day - a haiku

at the Perth airport
a comfortable-trouser family
a row of tracky dacks


Acknowledgements to Joanna Preston for her prompt on "comfortable trousers".
http://jopre.wordpress.com/

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Happy Mother's Day to all those mothers in control!

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Poem for the Day - The Ship inside the Cavern

     



A glimpse of the Aurora
from within the cavern in the wall of the shelf-ice
of the Mertz Glacier Tongue,
Commonwealth Bay, Adelie Land,
Australasian Antarctic Expedition,
December 1913. Photo by Frank Hurley.

The Ship inside the Cavern

The Aurora is caught
in a clamped iced year,
an amphitheatre of walls,
a large cave that puddles
each time winter leaves.
The great opening of ice
looks out as if the ship
has been emptied into the sea.
A chiaroscuro of light and dark
shadows and dims the bridge,
the sail-less masts, the hull
buoyant above the water-line.
Accompanied by great clumps
of ice there is a scent of brine,
damp boots in circuitry
from anchorage to sled.
Beyond, distance looms like shallow
breath. Mawson and Hurley
catching up with the shuffle
of Adélie penguins.

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