The Best of ‘… on Anything Really’ 2011: National Poetry Day—& “The Curve of the World”
In the final of my “The Best of ‘… on Anything, Really’ 2011” round up, I am featuring my National Poetry Day selection from Friday 22 July, last year as my Tuesday Poem feature today:
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.“Last year, I posted “Ti” for National Poetry Day, and this year I have chosen another poem that I feel has a distinctively New Zealand flavour in terms of landscape/seascape—I hope you enjoy.
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The Curve of the World
Summer breathes
through marram grass, salt-tough
where the southerly whips in
off the Pacific, light &
shadow all the way out
to the distant smudge
of albatross feeding—at night
you see lights dance,
squid boats fishing
the same spot.
The larger ships, too,
follow the albatross road,
tall towers disappearing
beneath the curve
of the world …
The wind sweeps in, recounts
tales of ships, albatross,
men with eyes bleached
to seams … tells
it all to the salt grass
and driftwood piled
into a beach fire—
smoke wavers upward
in a thin stream, dissipates
into the gulf
of sky.
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(c) Helen Lowe
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Published in JAAM 27: Wanderings, ed. Ingrid Horrocks, 2009
That’s a beautiful poem. 🙂
Thank you, Seregil, I am really glad you like it.:) However, I am flummoxed at how I managed to post my Tuesday poem on Monday and not notice! Will have to see what I can do ….