A busy few weeks for poetry with the beginning of spring.
A very special launch yesterday (6th September at Gleebooks in Glebe
of fourW thrity-five anthology by Booranga Writers’ Centre.
After a welcome and few words by the editor of the Anthology Professor David Gilbey
we enjoyed an interesting launch speech by Professor Andrew Hurley .
Many wonderful readers including the winner, Damen O’brien read from the Anthology
and I felt honoured to be asked to read and excited my friend and poet pip Griffin
got to read her poem “Don’t Wait”
My poem
Recovering Equilibrium
A headwind from nowhere whips her off course
as if in a sailing boat at sea.
She’s letting go the hullabaloo of diary dates
white sails tack to ease around a buoy.
She won’t battle the storm. Rather turns her bow
from the squall of steely clouds, away from their blades
of lightning. Her focus now is on the feathered blue sky
to the port side of her days.
A cockatoo daily sweeps past her window.
She imagines the call of herring gulls
above the beeps and squeaks of machines and trolleys
their hurl and heave on the wind
a scene of turbulent freedom.
Near port, the swell of waves neap.
A slowing rhythm. Stillness. She ebbs and flows
like the tide finding its pulse.
Colleen Keating