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The Beholder
Your love touched horizons Shading into skies: These late Sunday pastels From your patient eyes
Still keep you, grandmother, Living in my sight; Your landsc…
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(BOOK REVIEW Poems outshine dross of inept introduction)*
THE GOSPEL IN GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS: Selections from His Poems, Letters, Journals and Spiritual Writings
Edited by Margaret Ellsberg
Plough Publishing House, Elsmere Paperb…
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Volkssturm A photograph from the last days of the Reich: An old man with forage cap and arm-band Lifting a Panzerfaust, under the cold eyes Of instructors, readying for a final stand. From the east …
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Water-Taxi from a Pittwater Island
Smooth water. A silver fanunder the bowsreaching away to touch the stillsketched mastsof moonlit schooners anchoredwith lanternsdistant, and the far hills with …
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Emergency Ward In this mad-house Suddenly erupting about me Of orderlies running with trollies, T-shirted young interns, Bloodstained cops And screams, I look up and keep hold Of the one certai…
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One Memory My grandfather had a model sailing-ship In a case in the arcade outside his shop. The ship was made of matches, the glass case Had a slot for dropping coins in at the top. I spent a good…
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Old Ginger Cat
Whatever the books sayshe loves to make eye-contactcurled on our laps.
Purring on our kneesshe keeps her claws retractedas she kneads skin.
Allowed on the bedshe fights t…
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(BOOK REVIEW Poems exhibit delicate strength)*
KYOTO SAKURA TANKA by Andrew Lansdown
Rhiza Press, Capalaba, Queensland Hardcover: 144 pages Price: AUD $25.95
Reviewed by Brian Peachey
Kyoto…
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Pro Multis, non Pro Omnibus
“It may be that God has borne, long and patiently, with those who are the objects of his vengeance.”
Romans 9: 22
The Virgin’s little cousi…
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At the meeting point
Grey dawn at Heathrow.Jet-lagged, eyes smarting, sleepless,I stumble alone towards the Meeting PointThrough the grey shoals of the crowd.And suddenly,My loved one…
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(POETRY Sunset at the Perth War Cemetery)*
I came here with my mother first. Latershe bought a house nearby. I walk here still.There are new names, new rows of plaquesand new blank walls to fill.
One Anzac Day my m…
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For Sister Pauline Fitz-Walter All speaking needs this meaning, God is love: To breathe this sentence into breaths of life Through all conjunctions – to the heart of strife, Perfects believi…
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