Poems

Poem: Chaos Theory

males may hold the controls but women can still outwit Menelaus’s wife, Helen, was the reason for the Trojan women […]

MiNDFOOD Poem: Eternal

Lanterned streetlights reflect the rain on the cobblestones The trattoria in the alley is open until four Couples with linked […]

MiNDFOOD Poem: Milk and Honey

I stayed so long in the darkness it became a circle of light. Other women joined me: my mother, her […]

Poem: The Last Dance

Gentle man, take your position for the last dance. An aging glide across the back door And you’re there, […]

MiNDFOOD Poem: Blue Sports Coupé

Then there was the man who drove the pale blue sports coupé, who’d pull in to the kerb on that […]

Poem: Te Toroa – The Albatross

Bill snaps, sky calling, rose pink yammering! A lighthouse blinks, splashing stars upon the rocks. Curling paths, ribboning into the […]

Poem: The Colours of Fortune

It was years ago, the ship sailing us slowly into a fragrant harbour vibrating with red lanterns and slender girls […]

MiNDFOOD Poem of the Month: Keeping Time

Aunty kept you in a house on a wall no ordinary time keeper we in the innocence of playground laughing […]

MiNDFOOD Poem of the Month: 10 Haikus for 10 Days in Japan

Day 1, Tokyo The buildings close now As the late summer pulls in A strange soup, this warmth Day 2, […]

Poem: The Key

Like Cinderella’s missing shoe, there is one key to fit this lock. I ponder unbound possibilities, Fantasies of freedom behind […]

Poem: The Kererū

Cardinal red talons tightly grip on a blooming budding branch. A snow side apron brushes over the olive feathers. Elegant […]

Poem: Another Dream-State Love

I’ve spent quite a long time trying to find the words to say this but none of them ever seem […]

Poem: Blue Curtains

You see, everyone wants to know what’s wrong. Why the curtains are blue, why the holes aren’t mended, the stains […]

Poem: Threading Conkers on a String

When we were children, we played November’s game. By threading Conkers on a string. Fighting battles. Following rules. No pulling […]

Poem: Chair in the Long Grass

Did we meet on a slow-motion bus one hot afternoon from the east coast to the Riverina – you, impersonating […]

Poem: Monstera

then I was sitting on the tiled floor and I couldn’t ignore this plant-green glow in my heart that swelled […]

Poem: The Panacea

There’s a deep collective aching And I feel it in my bones A fresh paint-coat of grief That everyone […]

Poem: A Poem For My Baby

When young and starved of affection and attention – one accepts advances as love. Disappointed in love you moved within […]

Poem: Weary Feet

Weary feet walked the street, home to school without the beat of a mother’s heels trying to keep me from […]

Poem: Rivers of Latte

We only wanted two cups of coffee. This proved to be a hard ask in the town that called itself […]

Poem: The Spare Bed

I’ve decided to write another rhyming poem Since I can’t seem to sleep. Because the rent in my head Is […]

Poem: Washing Pile

I like it when my clothes are baggy When there are obvious gaps to fill And they sit lower on […]

Poem: Ukraine

Sunlight so dim the sky remains dark tanks slowly battling the icy slush stall in the mire the men tumbling […]

Poem: Wellington Way

As I sit upon Wellington way A winding pathway fragments itself into steps below Its birch railing blocking the sparrow’s […]

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