Poet's Corner

Poet's Corner

The News Won’t Say Her Name, But I Will

by Roger Chao

13 Jun 2025

She was more than ink on a fleeting page, more than a case on file ...

Poet's Corner

Your Plastic Will Outlive Us All

by Roger Chao

08 Jun 2025

They said the future would shine like pearl, a place of wonders yet untold ...

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The Main Road

by Stephen McCarthy

01 Jun 2025

The sky is big, and flecked with clouds ...

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The Measure of a Man

by Roger Chao

26 Apr 2025

What makes a man in times like these ...

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The ship of dreams

by Roger Chao

18 Apr 2025

Upon the sea where moonlight wove its silver thread through endless foam ...

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Who will teach me?

by Don Defenderfer

05 Apr 2025

Who will teach me how to sing? How to hear the voices in the streams? ...

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You can never go back

by David Faber

29 Mar 2025

You can never go back, they say, but I’m not so sure ...

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Plastic Apocalypse

by Roger Chao

22 Mar 2025

Where the tide leaves in sorrow, where the oceans weep ...

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Johnsons Beach

by Daniela Svoboda Tymms

08 Mar 2025

When I was young, a drone was just a bee ...

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A letter to the children of tomorrow

by Roger Chao

02 Mar 2025

Dear Children of the Tomorrow, in sorrowed verse we write ...

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The Pear Tree

by Liz McQuilkin

01 Mar 2025

I see your ripening fruit half-hidden in the foliage ...

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Haiku at the Dentist

by James Parker

22 Feb 2025

Six rough poems in Haiku form ...

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Not in my name

by Roger Chao

04 Feb 2025

... For the women who carry nightmares in the hollows of their hearts ...

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Transportation

by Allan Lake

11 Jan 2025

All the lunchtime voices at Cafe Currawong merge, sing, talk me back to misty choral Tasmania ...