Category: Poetry

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  Blue Meanie

  Author Koh Lin ◦ 1987 I was drinking one night from my place at the bar When I looked in my drink and saw staring up An ugly pair of hideous red eyes That glared in reply to my inquisitive stare And it’s… Continue reading

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  No Epitaph

  Author Koh Lin ◦ 1988 Augur. it was like any other day. your tears. momentarily shocked. glisten with inadequate words. as you hopped from one foot to the other. emotional tremour. ashened in your face. and a sound like some creature in a… Continue reading

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  O Alice Springs

  Author Evelyne Roullet ◦ 2003 O Alice Springs australienne ensorceleuse Celui qui te voit, qu’ll arrive des cieux Ou bien par la route des aïeux Ne peut plus oublier ce site mystérieux. C’est un trou…où les concentrations humaines Échappent à la logique… Continue reading

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  Another Time, Another Life

  Author Koh Lin ◦ 2018 time locked in capsules… vignettes seething with emotions to be read with your eyes closed …a small boy cries caught at the edge of reality teeters and falls and is snared by the thing hiding in his eyes… Continue reading

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  Stranger

  Author Koh Lin ◦ 1989 My heart thumps in staccato as i stir the doona that keeps me warm it clings to me and bears me down to places that are never found taking me far, where no thoughts are An electric jolt… Continue reading

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  struck by lightning

  Author Marianne Broug ◦ A willow tree that was struck by lightning last year.Most of the top was split off.I feel the tree still carries the angularity and shock of that … like it’s still ‘screaming’. Wonderful thick fog this… Continue reading

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  Elizabeth Bay

  Author Koh Lin ◦ 1981 I met you for a brief moment when our path’s crossed… a pleasurable repose and when you passed you left behind for those who cared an image, a memory, a part of your time that… Continue reading

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  Autumn Passion

  Author DaQua ◦ Ancient Oak, beguiling Birch Autumn leaves, brazen In the passionate embers of their dying colours. Whispering melodies, of winds High above my consciousness Arouse lofty branches Now provocative in their pose. Aching Arch, sensuous stretch Welcoming, long… Continue reading