Category Archives: Ars Poetica

Post It Note Poetry February 25

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February 25 – Growth

As Spring

Envelopes you

Tender shoots blossoming

Forming to engorged ripeness

Womb’s fruit

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Post It Note Poetry February 24

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February 24 – Washing Line Conversation

Last night’s conversation

Continues on the clothes line

The shirt and blouse entwined

Embraced in the music of the wind

Trousers slipped off

Placed one on the other

Now creased and dishevelled and

Two pairs of underpants side by side

As they were last night

Post It Note Poetry February 23

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February 23 – Revolution

When did “revolution” become an adjective?

Ascribed to ingredients of domestic products

“Revolutionary cleaning power!”

The design of women’s lingerie

“New, revolutionary wonder lift!”

No longer the power to stir

To call to arms; to change;

To leap into action.

All I know is

When the revolution comes

I’ll be wiping my bum

With revolutionary 3-ply toilet paper.

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Post It Note Poetry February 22

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February 22 – Tacet

Tacet marked on the score

A signal to stop

To not play

To rest

A moment to listen.

The breath in is held

Counted first then numbered

A paused action

An eternity

Captured

Selah

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Post It Note Poetry February 21

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February 21 – Fences

I peer between the common
Connection of our backyards
Through the fractured fingers
Of the old paling fence
Splayed out with lichen fingernails
And mossy knuckles
Leaning and bearing the weight
Of the jasmine and wisteria.
I peer into your backyard
Slatted snippets of sight
And wonder if you look into mine

Took a couple of photos for today’s poem. I liked them both so I included them here.

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Post It Note Poetry February 20

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February 20 – Conversations

Plucking at the topic

Yet mistimed with

Bum notes and fret buzz

The tuning slightly out creating

Dyssynchronous harmonics.

A pause before plucking

At the topic, adjusting the tuning pegs

So it resonates, oscillates

And runs the arpeggios

In synchronous harmony.

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Post It Note Poetry February 19

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February 19 – Dance Concert

Plumage of tulle

Bunched around bottoms

The perfect formation

Of conglomeration

Packed together

Cygnets learning to fly

In formation

By huddling together

This poem was inspired by the eucalyptus tree in blossom outside the office where I work.

I have two young daughters who love to dance and the bunch of blossoms reminded me of children’s dance concerts where they haven’t quite learned spacial awareness and clump together on stage.

If you are a native Antipodean, it will also remind you of May Gibbs’ creation, Snugglepot and Cuddlepie.