Judith Wright has been called 'the conscience of the nation' for her commitment to the environment and Aboriginal land rights. Nevertheless, it is for her poetry that she is best [...]
MECHTHILD OF MADGEBURG: 1207-1282Of all that God has shown meI can speak just the smallest word, No more than a honeybeeTakes on his footFrom an overspilling jar BASHO JAPAN: 1644In Kyoto,Hearing the [...]
uguries of Innocence To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. A Robin Red Breast in a Cage Puts all Heaven in a Rage. A dove house fill’d with doves & Pigeons Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sun rise.
The Metaphysical Poets wrote as if God was in heaven and all was well down here on earth
High Flight Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds, — [...]
Swallowed By The River She’s not had such fun in a long while. Donny is like a dolphin in the water, all slick and oily skinned, diving down and up [...]
Cargoes by John Mansfield I woke up the other morning with an old verse I’d learnt at school — not sure which year, but it was at least half a [...]
Galactic Address What are we doing here on this moving globe Earth insects swimming in the Orion Way far from the centre of the Galaxy clinging to the cavity of the [...]
Photograph: Peter Magubane The Maid I come into your home barefoot With calloused soles of uncouth shape and tramp the carpets of your stairs The glass of [...]
The photo below is of my first childhood house at Waterview, via South Grafton. It was taken several decades after my time spent there within the bosom of my first [...]
