A Safer Feel than Yesterday | Tony Peter Laing

                          _______________________________________________________ Foreday in the Morning   My mother grew morning glories that spilled onto the walkway toward her porch Because she was a woman with land who showed as much by giving it color. She told me I could have whatever I…

If he had Danced a slow foxtrot She would not Have vanished Had he swayed With the music Never could he Have forsaken her But the rains came With deafening voices And the fires Yet triumph How foolish Were they More at http://shannon50.dudaone.com/poetry-by-bonnie. The post Climate Change | Bonnie Burka Shannon appeared first on Best…

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And do you know how I went to that high place knowing how I tumbled and wishing I could peel and throw away the errors of years past? The post Wishing I Could | Edgar Law appeared first on Best Poetry. Go to Source Author: Best Poetry Online

I suffer from insomnia I sleep for an hour if lucky, others view me, think I have gone insane. They are fools. For that happened after the first time I knew poison that is love. Happiness moved in and my mind escaped like some cat who saw its chance then fled never to return. We…

Michael Farrell is one of Australian poetry’s great experimenters. Over his eight collections to date he has pushed at the limits of form, structure, syntax and more to interrogate, and indeed reshape, what “Australian poetry” actually means, particularly in its post-colonial paradigm. His seminal critical work Writing Australian Unsettlement: Modes of Poetic Invention 1796 –…