Cheerily sings the drover
With his stock so fat and sleek
Up to the border and over
His fortune for to seek.
Wednesday, 30 September 2015
Tuesday, 29 September 2015
The tale of the light roan cow - Mary Durack
Have you heard the tale of the light roan cow
With the minus off-side ear
That Paddy found, On neighbouring ground
While mustering far and near?
With the minus off-side ear
That Paddy found, On neighbouring ground
While mustering far and near?
Monday, 28 September 2015
A Box of Clouds - Sonia Phillips
To teach is
To make wings for ideas,
Watching with joy as fearful cocoons break
To make wings for ideas,
Watching with joy as fearful cocoons break
Sunday, 27 September 2015
Sold - Anne E Thompson
I held you,
Your weight light on my hip
As I touched your button nose
With mine,
Peered deep into
Shining eyes,
Because you are my world.
Your weight light on my hip
As I touched your button nose
With mine,
Peered deep into
Shining eyes,
Because you are my world.
Saturday, 26 September 2015
How Heavy The Days - Hermann Hesse
How heavy the days are.
There's not a fire that can warm me,
Not a sun to laugh with me,
Everything bare,
There's not a fire that can warm me,
Not a sun to laugh with me,
Everything bare,
Monday, 21 September 2015
When I shall come to you - Cathal O’Byrne
Of the dim woods, inlaid
With the jasper and jade
Of the green light that falls
Through the aisles, o'er the walls
Of the dark leafy fane,
With the jasper and jade
Of the green light that falls
Through the aisles, o'er the walls
Of the dark leafy fane,
Sunday, 20 September 2015
Making Peace - Denise Levertov
A voice from the dark called out,
"The poets must give us
imagination of peace, to oust the intense, familiar
imagination of disaster. Peace, not only
the absence of war."
"The poets must give us
imagination of peace, to oust the intense, familiar
imagination of disaster. Peace, not only
the absence of war."
Saturday, 19 September 2015
Enough - Otto Julius Bierbaum
A Knight rode through the ripened grain,
No spurs he had and loose his rein.
The horse that feasted on his walk
Snatched many a ripe and yellow stalk.
No spurs he had and loose his rein.
The horse that feasted on his walk
Snatched many a ripe and yellow stalk.
Wednesday, 16 September 2015
Epistle to Daedalus - Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão
Why you gave to your son plumage wax wings
if the powerfull sun at the sky would undo them?
if the powerfull sun at the sky would undo them?
Monday, 14 September 2015
Vondel's Lucifer (Act I, lines 223-281) - Joost van den Vondel
Belzebub:
Great is man's might, that thus even ours out-grows!
Great is man's might, that thus even ours out-grows!
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