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POEMS: Chinese Influence

April 18, 2015 1:12 am

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Raffles Hotel, Singapore, 2002

In honor of today’s re-blog from Damyanti in Singapore (a place I love to visit), I thought I’d share a couple of poems written during a workshop on Chinese Poetry at the Peter Cowan Writers Centre run by a fellow poet and old friend Helen Hagemann, in 2001.

 

1.

Spiked fir branches moving.

Dance together as one.  When

intruder breezes

stirring the pot of Heaven

renew Earth’s green mountain skin.

 

2.

Fire clings to plastic

devouring coloured hues.

Melts all pretence down,

slides it away from view

to reveal bones bare of truth.

 

Frances Macaulay Forde © 2001

 

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