Angelic Syzygy
...The dark intestine of the sea
Swallowed a colony of moonlit bats,
God laughed and threw a new
Canopic jar of graceful waves
For Set and Horus to quarrel over;
God smiled again and the darkness...
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Categories:
paperbark, imagination, lost, myth, rainforest,
Form: Free verse
One Square Mile
...In one square mile, northeast of Noojee,
there are seven birds that I often get to see
as I walk on the tracks in pristine forestry,
in one square mile, northeast of Noojee.
A Whipbird crack th...
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Categories:
paperbark, nature,
Form: Rhyme
C'Est Bientot L'Aube - Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal's the Dawn Is At Hand By T Wignesan
...C'est bientôt l’aube – Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s “The Dawn is at Hand” by T. Wignesan
(Note : In this poem - the title poem of her second collection - Oodgeroo has come full circle, l...
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Categories:
paperbark, best friend, celebration, devotion,
Form: Quatrain