POEM ALONE

Saturday, 25 October 2025

Dudley Stone: Letter

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Dear ----------: I promised you a letter and here it is beginning as always with an apology sorry, so sorry for not writing sooner though yo...
Thursday, 23 October 2025

Valerie Frost: After Miss

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here lies what once was— splintered glass of near truths resting beneath the power-blue hush of we don’t need to talk about it . we used to ...
Wednesday, 22 October 2025

Kenneth Owens: Ice

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The move to winter always jolts despite it being marked on the calendar, this annual trauma, jouncing in so soon after September. I shop for...
Thursday, 16 October 2025

David Adès: The Gaining of Wisdom

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As a boy I watched, bemused, my father on his annual autumnal   sorties to the large expanse of lawn separating our house from Anzac Highway...
Monday, 6 October 2025

Deirdre Cartmill: Will You Sing?

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And the word flew from the lips of love, and this was the first note, and it rang through the heavens, calling all the lost notes to it, all...
Friday, 3 October 2025

Jan Wiezorek: A Vessel for Sweet

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Taffy or candy corn, no, sweeter still than a beignet or a balanced blade of a cake knife, a chainsaw on an ash tree trunk, stripped from ba...
Wednesday, 1 October 2025

Kushal Poddar: Convalescence

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My old weight has returned. Should I welcome it? Should I regret? Still weak after the calenture and the fever, I take the weekend for a dri...
Monday, 29 September 2025

Terri Kirby Erickson: When My Father Died in Hospice

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The mortician who came for my father was too big for his suit. Young and fit, the muscles in his arms bulged beneath the fabric like beans i...
Friday, 26 September 2025

Adam Beardsworth : The Poet in His Youth

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We set sail on a barf bucket with vinyl seats because I'd read a book about loneliness and wanted to check the address, and you were not...
Wednesday, 24 September 2025

Christopher Woods: in the old days

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w e travelled by foot, horse and wagon, waiting for a promise of great machines to deliver us into the future.   the machines came, too many...
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