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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Cardinal red talons tightly grip on a blooming budding branch. A snow side apron brushes over the olive feathers. Elegant […]
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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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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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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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Did we meet on a slow-motion bus one hot afternoon from the east coast to the Riverina – you, impersonating […]
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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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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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When young and starved of affection and attention – one accepts advances as love. Disappointed in love you moved within […]
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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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We only wanted two cups of coffee. This proved to be a hard ask in the town that called itself […]
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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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I like it when my clothes are baggy When there are obvious gaps to fill And they sit lower on […]
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Sunlight so dim the sky remains dark tanks slowly battling the icy slush stall in the mire the men tumbling […]
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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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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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Saffron Sands Sow your seeds in the cinnamon earth And let the turmeric sun kiss your shoulders Climb […]
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find the words scrawled in ink tucked into the cracks of the pavement a story written between one step and […]
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I live in the shadows between night and day On the border of living, all shut away While others go […]
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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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Groceries flung into hungry backs of Mitsubishi 4 wheelers. Arms tossing bags of pronto pasta and microwave dinners. One foot […]
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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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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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