Keywords: Poem
There are more than 200 results, only the first 200 are displayed here.
-
ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peta Edmonds
- 19 March 2013
2 Comments
On the corner, like an unloved spider, if you've got a cigarette, they've got the lighter. They're in love with all the Gods. They get along with their bong. For them the smoke is the Holy Ghost.
READ MORE 
-
ARTS AND CULTURE
- Barry Gittins, Brian Doyle and B. A. Breen
- 12 March 2013
8 Comments
Man, yeah, I would be pope, if the phone rang, late at night, collect from the Vatican. Yes, I would, if I could do it right. I'd call a meeting of the Curia and say boys, we are letting women run everything for the next five years. Each of you gets a new boss in high heels.
READ MORE
-
RELIGION
- Desmond O'Grady
- 11 March 2013
2 Comments
The internationalisation of the papacy over the past 35 years has been accompanied by an Italianisation of the Vatican media coverage, particularly in Benedict's reign. Vatican coverage reads like Italian political stories with smear campaigns, back-biting, wild accusations and turf wars.
READ MORE
-
ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Gebhardt
- 05 March 2013
1 Comment
What I fear is that on Judgment Day one's punishment will be to hear God reciting by heart the poems I would have written had my life been good.
READ MORE
-
ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Mitchell
- 26 February 2013
3 Comments
Mars-sunset eyes deep sunk, prune wrinkled hide, cheek bones protruding like clenched fists, hovers above the bed of respite. In the silence, this fellow-feeling fissures the lines of my ordinary features.
READ MORE
-
ARTS AND CULTURE
- Graham Kershaw
- 12 February 2013
1 Comment
Don't you seek a centre, an object of devotion? Don't you seek a primal source of light? In the evening, on verandahs, in the dark, in the rain ... Don't you go inside quickly and drink yourself blind?
READ MORE
-
ARTS AND CULTURE
- Les Murray
- 05 February 2013
3 Comments
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.
READ MORE
-
ARTS AND CULTURE
- Chris Wallace-Crabbe
- 29 January 2013
2 Comments
For what, I ask you, was somebody called our saviour in the turbulent middle-east (still in trouble, of course it must be) two long Ks ago? Light flickered on dwellers in death's dark shadow yet those turbulent sandy nations truckle on, just where their ancestors ambled out of Africa toward the hideogram of history.
READ MORE