Category Archives: Poetry
Summer river
Jack Kerouac – Haiku
Shall I say no?
-fly rubbing
his back legs
In my medicine cabinet
the winter fly
has died of old age
The summer chair
rocking by itself
in the blizzard
Evening coming-
the office girl
unloosing her scarf
from Barbara Louise Ungar in the Haiku Path , The Haiku Society of America 1968 – 1988
Vale – Ania Walwicz
Ania Walwicz was the first writing teacher I ever had. About thirty-five years ago she was teaching in a Community Centre in Clifton Hill, even though she was a graduate of The Victorian College of the Arts. She had come to Australia from Poland as a child and always retained a strong accent. A tiny woman, she was known for her public performances, often wearing a large black beard. She was a true original, a Bohemian rebel, always unafraid to challenge conventional ideas. Continue reading Vale – Ania Walwicz
Mrs Midas – Carol Ann Duffy
Louise Gluck wins Nobel Prize
Recently we posted Louise Gluck’s poem Lamium and we’ve also posted excerpts from other poems in her collection The Wild Iris. She’s just won the Nobel Prize for Literature “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.”
If, like Gert, you’ve been out of your usual whirl of cocktail parties, media appearances and clamourings for your advice on all sorts of subjects, you may appreciate this poem Happiness, which popped into our mailbox courtesy of the Paris Review’s Daily Poem service: