by Anne Skyvington | Aug 11, 2024 | Poetry
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 remembered, poetry which has helped shape Australia’s perception of...
by Anne Skyvington | Jul 28, 2024 | Poetry, Writing Spirit
MECHTHILD OF MADGEBURG: 1207-1282 Of 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: 1644 In Kyoto, Hearing the cuckoo I long for Kyoto Death-sick on my journey My dreams run out...
by Anne Skyvington | Feb 3, 2024 | Poetry, Writing Spirit
WILLIAM BLAKE The Tyger Tyger, Tyger, burning brightIn the forests of the night,What immortal hand or eyeCould frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skiesBurnt the fire of thine eyes?On what wings dare he aspire?What the hand dare seize the fire? And...
by Anne Skyvington | Jan 26, 2024 | Poetry
W. H. Auden: Stop the Clocks * Note the melodic iambic pentameter and internal rhymeStop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,Silence the pianos and with muffled drumBring out the coffin, let the mourners come.Let...
by Anne Skyvington | Sep 12, 2023 | Poetry, Writing A Novel
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, — and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung...
by Anne Skyvington | Jan 5, 2023 | Poetry
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 and showing off. C’mon! C’mon’! he shouts. He dives again, this time staying down longer Five…six…seven seconds she...
