March 2015
Selectors: Amanda Joy, Meryl Manoy, Rose van Son and Gary De Piazzi
Submissions Manager: Gary De Piazzi
Contributors:
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from vine to gutter,
then back as we pass –
jittering sparrows
James Roderick Burns
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Mr. Whippy – ten years old again clutching a dollar note
Anne Curran – Hamilton NZ
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snow shower
broken branches
feathers ruffle
Nancy May
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reaching for her shawl
the long shadows
of the pines
year’s end
crossing the stone bridge
into shadow
snowfall
the dark mouths of seals
surfacing
winter fog
the old gate on
the top field
Andrew Tracy
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butterfly pupae
the bamboo forest
creaking
love note
another fold
in my origami
my son’s exams
the frog beneath his window
silent
fan palms
everyone cranes to see
the cassowary
Cynthia Rowe
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first trace of dawn
a robin sings the night
away
midnight
even the wind whispers
Gary Colombo De Piazzi
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tufts of fleece
a scattered cumulus
on greasy boards
Jan Napier
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rosellas and wrens
chase and scatter –
prayer flags
Earl Livings
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onion field —
cutworms deepen
the farmer’s furrow
baseball season —
the grass on my lawn
grows another inch
blue fin tuna —
a rusting can returns
to the shore
peach blossoms —
the hearse heavier
by a petal
wind chimes –
just long enough
to name a tune
Carl Seguiban
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over the fields
a full moon
stars the frost
Simon Hanson Allendale, Australia
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after the ceremony
corellas flutter
on the flagpole
Margaret Ferrell
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dark glasses –
grandpa’s first selfie
post cataract
Yesha Shah. India.
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in the shop window –
the sweater she knitted
as a gift
Juliet Wilson
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peeling boiled eggs
the cracked ceramic glaze
of nan’s serving plate
she brings me
a bag of broad beans
and one haiku
valentine’s day
at the zoo
visitors two by two
Tash Adams
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raindrops cling
from the flying fox —
summer camp
raven’s caw
the misery she brings
into my life
Christmas lunch —
after the presents we continue
our argument
Myron Lysenko, Woodend, Victoria.
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wind gusts
chased up the road
Panama hat
Barry Sanbrook
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evening breeze –
a bent palm tree cradling
the moon
Kashinath Karmakar, Durgapur,India
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reaching for the dust
in a sunbeam
crawling infant
social media–
trying to recover
my deleted friends
Samantha Sirimanne Hyde
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standing on one leg
the gull stretches a wing
white sails
Liz Nicholls
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nature calls
on the long country road –
a kookaburra laughs
winter trees
the neighbour’s light
goes out
Rob Scott
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bamboo forest —
even the sun’s rays
cannot escape
Ali Znaidi, Tunisia
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end of season
the last mulberries
at the top of the tree
Rose van Son
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