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Australian Poets

Anne Skyvington — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 07:09:10 +0000

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Spiritual Poetry Through the Ages

Anne Skyvington — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 22:23:26 +0000

Rumi: 1207- Lift Now the Lid of the Jar of Heaven Many Sufis believed that alcoholic inebriation might lesson the veil between this world and the next Pour, cupbearers, the wine of the invisible,The name and sign of what has no sign!Pour it abundantly, it is you who enrich the soulMake the soul drunk, and […]

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Mystical poems that I have loved…

Anne Skyvington — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 06:53:59 +0000

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.

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Some favourite poets in English

Anne Skyvington — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 02:22:22 +0000

The Metaphysical Poets wrote as if God was in heaven and all was well down here on earth

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High Flights: Beginnings and Endings

Anne Skyvington — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 04:12:00 +0000

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 High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there, I’ve chased […]

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My Brother Donny

Anne Skyvington — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 22:26:36 +0000

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 counts. And up into the softening summer’s […]

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a funny thing happened …

Anne Skyvington — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 12:24:51 +0000

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 century ago — playing in my head like on a tape recorder. And the rhythm was still there! I’m sure some of my readers will […]

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Our Galactic Address: A Poem

Anne Skyvington — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 04:08:54 +0000

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 Local Bubble in this solar system called the Milky Way? An insignificant metal ball, trapped in motion, endlessly, drawing circles concentrically around the fiery sphere, […]

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A Window into Poetry

Anne Skyvington — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 11:28:51 +0000

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 family. I think it is the inspiration for the poem, below, which is probably my best. Poetry is not my most practised genre, but I […]

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T.S.ELIOT: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Anne Skyvington — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 07:40:53 +0000

The Ageing Dante holding a copy of The Divine Comedy Sentiments in the poem are of loss, love and melancholy related to growing old. Eliot was reading Dante Alighieri’s main works when he wrote this poem. Above is a portrait of Dante holding a copy of The Divine Comedy The Love Song of J. […]

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