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Three Poems from Best NZ Poems Authors

July 20th, 2012 Comments(0)

3 poems from Best NZ Poems authors:

Helen Lehndorf:
A skull, a silk, a skulk

It was raining Japanese rain:
straight down and copious.

My Great-Grandmother always said:
Don’t borrow trouble

which is good advice, but she
didn’t say what to do if trouble
borrows you. Damn her for dying. Read more »

learning Revolution by John Elijah

July 17th, 2012 Comments(0)
learning Revolution
or
the resurrection
(on forgiveness, memory and forgetting)

dedicated and
in memoriam to
Florence Rita
and
Ronald Leslie Barrow

 

Master of Being
slave to fate

Master of destiny
slave to history

Master of faith
slave to priest

Master of wisdom
slave to truth
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Poem of the Week: Exchange

March 08th, 2012 Comments(0)
Poem of the Week: 8 – 15 March 2012

Exchange by Adrian Harrison

I will exchange with you
Some music for art
Some art for beer
Some beer for firewood
Some firewood for food
Some food for a poem
A poem for your time
Your time a poem

Poem of the Week: Eurydice

November 07th, 2009 Comments(0)

The Guardian has reported that a poetry installation of Sue Hubbard’s “Eurydice” in the Waterloo underpass has been painted over.

Eurydice

I am not afraid as I descend,
step by step, leaving behind the salt wind
blowing up the corrugated river,
the damp city streets, their sodium glare
of rush-hour headlights pitted with pearls of rain;
for my eyes still reflect the half remembered moon.

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Poem of the Week: Treaty

September 24th, 2009 Comments(0)
Poem of the Week: TREATY by Reihana MacDonald
From: AUP New Poets 3, 1998

Tin of cocoa
Tin of cocoa
Tin of cocoa

All at sea
On a boat
No one land

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James K Baxter’s Otago Anthem

August 29th, 2009 Comments(3)
Poem of the Week: University Song by James K Baxter with music by Douglas Lilburn

This alternative Otago University anthem written by Baxter and composed by Lilburn had its first public recital in nearly 65 years at the university earlier this week.

University Song

Among these hills our fathers came
By strength of eye and hand alone
They build: and murmur loud as flame
Their voices from the living stone.

Forget not those whom Scotland bred
Above whose bones our cities stand:
Forget not them! nor the unknown dead
Whose broken veins flow through our land.

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Just This

July 16th, 2009 Comments(0)
Poem of the Week: Just This by Brian Turner

From: Just This, Victoria University Press. $25.

Just This

All I can say
is that for me nothing hurts more

than leaving and nothing less than coming home
when a nor’wester’s gusting in the pines
like operatic laughter, and the roadside grasses

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Last Post

July 02nd, 2009 Comments(8)
Poem of the Week: LAST POST by Mary Cresswell

From: Nearest and Dearest, Steele Roberts. $20.nearest

LAST POST

First we took Manhattan
then we took Berlin
We sang of free love, Mao and Marx
and nitroglycerin.

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The Poet’s Eyes are Lowered

June 11th, 2009 Comments(1)
Poem of the Week: The Poet’s Eyes are Lowered by Ted Jenner

From: Writers in Residence and other captive fauna Titus Books

The poet’s eyes are lowered.
There is a pencil on the table
but there is no rubber to erase
the next line which is quite distinct.

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Haiku for the Recession

April 10th, 2009 Comments(1)
Poem of the Week: Haiku for the Recession

By David Geary

tea stained fingers
two cups squeezed from one bag
I am my mother

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