For she who is embedded in the text … Smiling Even (at least sometimes) in the wrong places Magic ~ I doubt you own up to that ~ Played out in All your silent tongues In all the dialects we both may anguish over Forgotten by morning Indiscrete nights/discourse denied Objuration unspoken/agreed? Not, it would […]
Category: Poetry
My poetry and comment on the poetry I am reading.
Rosemary ~ That’s For Remembrance
A reflection on Shakespeare’s old home town … The harshest European winter for over one hundred years and there I was in a short-sleeved blouse in Warwickshire. Stratford to be totally accurate, and staying at the Greensleeves Guest House just over the bridge to the north of the town. In the afternoon of the first […]
Insomniac Faith (endless truth)
For Cushla: Valentine’s Day 2009 You are there Of course you are there Where else would you be (would be your answer) Where else but here Heart knows Head Not so assured It is an endless fascination Skin like shot silk Then Light through yonder window breaks Breaks up Cracks up There you are I […]
Hamlet ~ a theatre review
Hamlet Experimental variation on themes and text by William Shakespeare UNITEC School of Performing and Screen Arts Shakespeare Season 2013 Directed by Benjamin Henson Set by Natasha Pearl Costume design by Amy Beales Lighting design by Sam Denize Sound design by Steven Youhana UNITEC Theatre Reviewed on 07 June, 2012 Published at http://www.theatreview.org.nz Claude Bernard […]
Illumination
For she who needs must remain nameless You’re going to bugger off That’s certain Unarguably It’s a great hole In my life A big one Workmanlike Smooth earth edges Golden clay Tanned (lightly) Moist Deep So I can’t climb out I know this because I dug them When I was a kid […]
Akróstichis #3 ~ Where I Drew Some Blood
Just as it always was, that’s how it is Before you came I didn’t know you, or dream of you Now that has changed June and July, never months of joy Or sweetness, more like months of drudgery and grind Midway to winter’s sallow end and Ploughing the flurry of some imagined deep […]
The Waste Land ~ a theatre review
The Waste Land By T.S Eliot Directed by Michael Hurst Musical Director John Gibson Produced by Auckland Theatre Company ATC Dominion Road Rehearsal Rooms 7 – 11 December 2011 at 8pm Reviewed on Sunday 11 December Published at http://www.theatreview.org.nz April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, […]
Space Wizard
Space Wizard This is one of those poems written written 38 years ago and rediscovered on Thursday, 13 January 2011. More to come … maybe … I should dedicate them all to then Constable Ian Snell who saved my life. Long gone Into the darkness of night You left us And the perils, the forest, […]
Brokeback Mountain (for girls) ~ Calgary Nights
For Chloe & Cushla & Shay (always Shay …) Coyote? Is that you out there? (your ghostly keen?) Or are you Wolf? Wolf? What is it that we fear in the night, children That might lurk here To revive those primal infant fears? Here (of all places, all people) Here In the Rockies Or at […]
Vision from Gaza
Vision from Gaza For Shannon (Shay) I met her On her road to Damascus So I thought Sun shone on the grit sand Glint owning shards of light Spreading them like a warm disease of the mind She wore her hair in unfashionable ringlets Screwtapes missing That was not all Something else was Not quite […]
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