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 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 [...]
Eliot’s poem, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, and especially the second and third lines, are said to herald in modernism in poetry. His is an excellent example of [...]
The Preface by Ian: Aged over seventy and I fell in love, unexpected to say the least. I will never forget the date; 31st October 2014, Halloween! Is that prophetic? [...]
About Rumi Born June 03, 1207in بلخ / Balkh, Afghanistan Died August 20, 1273 From Wikipedia: Mawlānā Jalāl-ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (Persian: مولانا جلال الدین محمد رومی), also known as Mawlānā [...]
This beautiful poem fell upon my desk one morning out of the world wide web : I am your moon and your moonlight too I am your flower garden and [...]
One of the advantages of living where I do in Sydney is that there is water all around me. I've always lived near the beaches of the eastern suburbs, Coogee, [...]
I am not an expert on writing haiku, but I am fascinated by this form of poetry. What I like about it is the discipline it requires. You must write, [...]
