Long Hester Poems

"Barefoot in the Bushfires of the Vanities"



Heat rises slowly to rapture flames licking and teasing
Blue Ghostgums to stretch and crack wide open
as Fire spreads molten sweet sap bleeding burgundy all over 
amber gold wild bush...

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I
How long have I been doing this
Throwing my time & money
Into a hole
Filling up notebooks
Mining overheard conversation
For lines
Squeezing the sponge
Of my wine soaked
Mind
Into the bucket
Of poetry
And now here we are
Gulping down the
Lead tainted water
Like Romans
Romans
Forced...

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"Books and Covers"



"Books and Covers"

"Covers and Books"

"Stories and Lovers"

"Lovers and Stories"

"Some Time It Took"

"Spinning Wheels Spinning"

"Needles Pricking Thumbs"

"Agatha and Daphne"

"Danvers is Rebecca's Mum"

"Casting Fishing Hooks and Aspersions"

"Bewitching Hour"

"Drinking Potions of Lovespell's Nasturtiums"

"Lost Love Woods" 

"Hidden...

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My contingency measure in case of…götterdämmerung

A scenario unfolds
more abominable among
any previous warring factions,
his wicked weltanschauung
charred effigies futilely hung
against regime of brutality
considerably more unbearable
than infestation of fruit flies brung
about courtesy evil monster sprung
shortchanging restless and young.

Seconds...

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if we could write a scarlet letter
in a world where there is no shame
and place it on a hester prine
just to shame her name
could we find another letter
to represent the womans scorn
and place the letter...

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A true advantage
Is to be angry with your head
And not your heart.
This is how good men win wars,
And smart women win arguments.
And this is the story 
Of how I finally learned the difference.

Darkness lit by...

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I’ve spent a lifetime; looking down this same old road
And; all the memories that, upon me it has bestowed

I watched the children play and grow, as some stayed
There were others; who left, married, some led...

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In an ill-advised decision,
Educationally dumb,
New York City’s ranked its teachers,
Which defies the rule of thumb.

For the whole world now has access
To the way each teacher scored,
Though I thought humiliation
Was a means to be deplored.

Only math...

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She heard her feet fall on the dirt.
The echo caused her heart to hurt;
and though she held her head up high,
she chose her fate for love to lie.

No shame could steal her pride away.
Stern puritans...

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To mother Pearl with roses
Who loves not lies nor poses
Dislikes neighbors that’s nosy
Likes good weather that’s rosy

Mom is a very good cook
Cooks from scratch not from a book
In cookbooks she never looks
Cook’s lessons she never...

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Hester felt like she deserved it, so she did not say a word.
Wearing the scarlet letter for the town to see,
She walked with her baby through people and their prejudices.
Superstitions wafted in the evening wind...

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six million stones
a railroad car streaked red
a thousand astrodomes
swollen with dead children
the population of houston
dallas wiped out

ugly striped prison uniforms
signifying captures and escapes
martin luther as a bigot
bonhoeffer as a hero
dying days before the
liberation

faces from rwanda...

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This poem is dedictated to our beloved uncle Tommy Hester, who passed away at 1705 26th
July 2009 at the too young an age of 65.


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James has been rowing since he was aged eleven, 
At Peterborough rowing club and at junior events,
But whilst at London Uni a crash sadly broke his back, 
So that now he takes part in disability...

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a 1945 bottle of Romanée-Conti, a

telephone booth in london, a rouge

sunflower, a covered bridge in green

river, vt, a basket of juicy ripe tomatoes,

a branch of cherries bearing down as

ornaments, apples bearing all shades

thereof, autumn barberries,...

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Hester P Goldman was a loving woman, a friendly, good-looking, happy to please-you-woman.
The kind of woman you would take on vacation, and let sit in the car.
Having grown up in a loving home, she could...

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"HEX"






whispers, a pit full of vipers swallow feathers and their tales, scarlet letter burned blistering at the crucible assizes



(Lovejoy-Burton/2018 Jan)


1. Hester Prynne/Pearl, Character Analysis
https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/s/the-scarlet-letter/character-analysis/hester-prynne

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw2Ic_2XdVQ

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_XoKJP1XK4
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