keywords: Australian Poems
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- P. S. Cottier
- 12 June 2017
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It involves hoods, but less KKK than DDD - Don Dale Detention where the kids wear the hoods in a stunning display of regressive taxation. 2. Outsourcing pain to poorer places which we pay to exercise contempt on our behalf - washing red hands in the convenient sea. Who needs a wall? 3. Protecting Islamic women by shouting at them on streets for wearing religious freedom.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jena Woodhouse and Ian C. Smith
- 24 April 2017
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Now, the forces of annihilation once again cohere, as if this were a valve in history's cardiac arrhythmia that faltered and unleashed a haemorrhage of horror, trauma, fear. The damask roses bloom unharvested in devastated fields. Their perfume cannot mask the stench that permeates the air, the atmosphere of dread, of mute despair. But when the juggernaut of war is redeployed elsewhere, the fragrant fields will come into their own, if there are hands to care.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Les Murray
- 05 February 2013
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A man coughs like a box and turns on yellow light to follow his bladder out over the gunwale of his bed. He yawns upright trying not to dot the floor with little advance pees.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Karl Cameron-Jackson and Mike Hopkins
- 06 March 2012
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With fresh blood in your mouth you are no longer cat, house-trained to please. Now you kill wantonly, revel in the fear you invoke in others. Man was created, just like you, to run free in the killing-fields ... Is this what God meant you to be? To revert to what you once were?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Michael Sharkey and Barry Gittins
- 19 July 2011
Bought after the wreckage of a shoaled first marriage, the becalmed, calming painting survived a bachelor's anchorage, flotsam and jetsam, to find love. Peace. Safe, prized harbour under muted tiles and a stultifying light orb.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Go and open the door .. stare at the bright blue sea .. for boats .. struggling southwards from Sri Lanka and Afghanistan. .. Feel the rippling fear of refugees .. wondering if supplies will last .. or a hand reach out .. or turn and lock the door.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Lost — Waiting for Spring — God owes me Royalties — Niche — Folding & Flying — Judas and Jezebel — Donne captains a ship of fools — Home — Loose Change — election
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Mark Carkeet and Graham Kershaw
- 17 August 2010
They're elderly, unstable, probably a couple, their cheerful eyes sprung like steel against the cold, their hands arthritic, resigned; their grip carrying no conviction. Concentration lapses. People fail to see. This has never been a Labour town.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
as she lies there, somehow she feels time creeping — some inchoate sense, sense of the Grim Reaper reaping with his scathing scythe, or Father Time with a sieve ...
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jeff Klooger, Rory Harris and Janette Fernando
- 07 April 2009
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In Rembrandt's painting, the risen Christ .. wears a jaunty hat ... So roguish! .. So impious! Impish, even!
.. He has come to greet his girlfriend .. Mary Magdalene
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Anne Benjamin and Deborah Ruiz Wall
- 03 February 2009
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phosphorus .. above empty streets .. politicians promise .. vengeance will bring peace
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Christopher Kelen
- 02 December 2008
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this poor house where ... as in the book of songs ... a famous rat eats the seedlings ... as they rise
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