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If the body could float,
of course you might ride motionless
on the breeze,
skydive aerial arms slowly
down this ravine
feel the fuzzled damp
of foam
lightly touch rock
some ordinary flower
Australian Poetry LibraryAustralian 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…Read More
Poem for the Day - Penguins in FrostPenguins in Frost
Ice cased Adelie penguins
after a blizzard at Cape Denison
photo by Frank Hurley,
National Library of Australia.
White glossed, unbearably chilled
these penguins are piqued in glare
nothing moves …Read More
Thank you. I saw an eagle or hawk (not sure) on the same day. Too far away to capture, but how lucky they are to catch the thermals. I guess the narrator wants to be like the bird. Cheers, Helen
Helen Hagemann holds an MA in Writing from Edith Cowan University, has three poetry books: Evangelyne & Other Poems published by Australian Poetry, Melbourne (2009) and of Arc & Shadow published by Sunline Press, Perth (2013). Bounty: prose poetry is published by Oz.one Publishing in 2024. She has three novels published The Last Asbestos Town (2020), The Ozone Café (2021) and The Five Lives of Ms Bennett a result of her Masters degree at ECU (2006), is published by Oz.one Publishing (2023).
2 comments:
Mmm - lovely. Thanks for sharing the gentle journey of this poem.
Thank you. I saw an eagle or hawk (not sure) on the same day. Too far away to capture, but how lucky they are to catch the thermals. I guess the narrator wants to be like the bird. Cheers, Helen
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