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Poem: The Key

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

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Poem: The Kererū

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

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Poem: Monstera

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

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Poem: The Panacea

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

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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 […]

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Poem: Weary Feet

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

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Poem: Rivers of Latte

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

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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 […]

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Poem: Washing Pile

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

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Poem: Ukraine

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

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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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Poem: Life in Colour

Eggshell cracked, yields yolk into freefall, Shining bright like a little sun in the stainless-steel pan, The translucence turns to […]

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Poem: The Refugee Trees

In honour of the Ukraine and other refugees world-wide.

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Poem: Saffron Sands

  Saffron Sands   Sow your seeds in the cinnamon earth And let the turmeric sun kiss your shoulders Climb […]

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Poem: Ode To The Dreamers

find the words scrawled in ink tucked into the cracks of the pavement a story written between one step and […]

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Poem: Untitled

I live in the shadows between night and day On the border of living, all shut away While others go […]

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Poem: Now

They don’t want to hear About the roads I’ve travelled Heard it all before they say Then talk about themselves […]

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Poem: Pause

Groceries flung into hungry backs of Mitsubishi 4 wheelers. Arms tossing bags of pronto pasta and microwave dinners. One foot […]

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MiNDFOOD Poetry Competition Finalists 2021

Each month, MiNDFOOD invites our readers from New Zealand and Australia to enter our poetry competition and have their original poems published in MiNDFOOD. Here are the finalists for 2021.

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Withered Away – Poem

A poem by one of our readers, Grace Willmore. Are you a Budding Poet? Have your poem published in MiNDFOOD magazine too.

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