A social site for poets in Sydney.
Just follow the signposts, on the road to infinity,
one by one they'll rise up to meet you.
In the beginning is Immaturity,
leading you on to Insecurity,
up the hill towards Enlightenment,
where you are trapped behind the
caravan of Disenchantment.
Waiting to overtake you ponder
the Imponderable on this freeway
to Immortality, conveniently
forgetting your bouts of Immorality.
You pull over to the hard…
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A bull called Calvary,
In the depths of winter Calvary seeks refuge underground
far from the howl sweeping the land’s frozen surface with the low battering void.
In earth
The dark labyrinth is warmer here than the cave mouth
and a different world
The two brothers Altamira and Pech Merle creep within the light of the fire stick that makes the path between knowing and that, which is not
their shadows move beyond the…
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The Lost Boys
A nation celebrates the mourning it’s pressures and vacuums with khaki uniformity
tempering the horizon,
where no man is evident
beyond
a cellular perception exemplifying teamwork as the authority best qualified to evolve into culture.
And for those who don’t live the war
enjoy the dark rage of Easter’s ceremony, of the lost boys,…
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DEGREEES
Over several family-size supremes
in Bundanoon's Italian spot,
tourists from Sydney whine about
the state of roads into town.
A Pakistani father and his boy,
eating bread scraps, calling to goats,
wander along what's left of a new road,
whilst being watched by a US drone.
LJ, March 2013
Added by Lorne Johnson on March 19, 2013 at 9:00 — 1 Comment
What was once you is no more
Your being changed from it's very core
clouded thoughts of all sorts
makes you easy to contort.
Reason fades replaced by the chase
of a solid state to hold your face.
Though if difference means to stop,
then hope remains untouched.
Pull it together man.
How do you expect to lend your hand
when you can hardly stand,
Words escape you now and then
but what use are…
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FACT
The male Sydney Funnel Web
was the only thing
in this universe
that spooked
Darth Vader.
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I just sent fellow Southern Highlander Mark Tredinnick a couple of poems for the love poetry volume he's editing... let's see whether they make the cut...
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Geoff Page is at the National Library of Australia next Tuesday @ 3pm speaking about his life with poetry and jazz... sounds good to me...
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I am stoked John Knight of Pitt Street Poetry is re-issuing Luke Davies' ultra-rare Four Plots For Magnets (from 1982) in April. Luke's lyric means a lot to me. Years ago, Luke offered me words of encouragement re my own poetry writing.
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I just sent off 5 poems to the Jean Cecily Drake-Brockman Prize. The prize is $1000, a two week residency at Manning Clark House in Canberra and a residency in a castle in Ireland. What a well-considered prize. All hail the architects behind it. I'll cross my fingers, take a deep breath...
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I live in Bundanoon, NSW and teach English at Magdalene Catholic High School in south-west Sydney. My poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Eclogues Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 2007, the Broadway Poetry Prize collection 2004, Meanjin, Island, Islet, Mascara Literary Review, Wet Ink, Regime, Cordite, Famous Reporter, Rabbit, For Rhino in a Shrinking World and Poetry d'Amour…
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