States of Poetry SA poems
About Jan Owen | States of Poetry SA - Series Two
Tuesday, 20 February 2018'July Poem' by Dominic Symes | States of Poetry SA - Series Two
'Things I Know to be True' by Dominic Symes | States of Poetry SA - Series Two
Eating a burrito in the Festival Theatre foyer hair in a half-up half-down
Watching umbrellas & people blow through the door looking for E and her mother
Are they wearing furs? Where are they? E loves the theatre doesn’t come late
Two girls walk past in Year 12 jumpers & I never went to my five-year reunion
Hung up these port ...
'Poem for A' by Dominic Symes | States of Poetry SA - Series Two
'The Madness of the Day' by Dominic Symes | States of Poetry SA - Series Two
'Minor Seconds' by Dominic Symes | States of Poetry SA - Series Two
Listening to my own listless heart beating & you
beside me I discover we are minor seconds apart
tragic-chromatic but if subtle harmony does exist
it’s a three-year-old playing fists palms & elbows
we manage to stay out of each other’s way mostly
save for collateral clashes/catastrophes: collisions
& rhythms? look at this ven ...
About Dominic Symes | States of Poetry SA - Series Two
Tuesday, 20 February 2018'First Rough Draft' by Jules Leigh Koch | States of Poetry SA - Series Two
I walk through an industrial landscape
in the painful adolescent hours
before sunrise
above the sky has sobered up
but the high tensions wires
are still dripping
with conversations
long after rain has fallen
traffic lights turn
green
orange
red
city streets are wind blown
with electric light
underfoot
leaves hav ...
'Monastery' by Jules Leigh Koch | States of Poetry SA - Series Two
the early morning sky
has bled out all over
the snug tiled roofs
and tranquillised gardens
of a Buddhist monastery
the air is a medley
with yellow and orange
shavings of sunlight
in the dormitory’s courtyard
well-bred leaves
are falling like penances
stone buildings stand mute
with only a monologue of prayer bells
so ...