Poetry & Short Stories Archives - Page 30 Of 31

A poem

somebody alone ten floors up sat at a table his bare bones of feet spread in delicate balance on his skull a...

THERE are a couple of kids on the front page of the Mercury today, displaying their great grandfather’s war medals, and who...

Friend! It’s good to meet you. I can see it in your eyes straight away you’re one of us. Life’s a bitch...

EACH night I make a drink and wait for them They have become the day’s concluding news, Installments from a world without...

I heard the calling of the Robin The first I’d heard this year Trilled greeting from the seasons Summer’s flown and Winter’s...

Devil Highway ©P.Tapp 1995 Tassie Devils, Tassie Devils, Tassie Devils on the road Four and twenty, more and plenty Tassie devils on...

My friend and I, we pondered why John Howard looks so well. How Canberra hasn’t damaged him, we’re at a loss to...

I dreamt I held a tiny whale in the palm of my big hand Its vulnerable belly soft and pale its life...

THE BLITZKRIEG by Harold John Solomon (1907-1986) (with thanks to the late Senator Reg Wright) Murder, most foul, goes swaggering down the...

THIS launch of Pete Hay’s wonderful new book of poetry, Silently on the Tide, will be in three parts: • A Memory:...