Sunshine all the time makes a desert.
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Category Archives: EMPTINESS
“To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.” ― Malcolm X
Elegant Violence
Aufie Zophy
After five days of gloom
and dark monsoon,
sparks of colour in the sunrise
betray an enticing pause in the season
Strong winds still stand
and sweep up white chunks of water
that jump out of the sea
in violent bouts of elegance
Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.” Mae West
Old Auntie
spits of conversation
splatter against brown brick
urban squalor
she shambles
slowly past song
into dementia
a bottle curved fondly
into clawed arthritic shape
wasted and spare
as autumn passing
a winter’s sentence
in a bare concrete cell
I heard you screech
slurred defiance back at smug
colonial control
meet conspiracy with non-cooperation
a glaring silence eloquent
with protest
but still they took you
heart country life and mind
all gone now
she shuffles watches
liquid-memory images dissolve
in the bottom of emptiness
©Jennifer A Martiniello
Old Auntie was published in the ASA Journal (1997).
http://www.kemarrearts.com.au/port_poetrysj.htm
We become aware of the void as we fill it. Antonio Porchia
EMPTY CHAIR
Festival sunset
sacrificed words never said
your absence noted
ALEXANDRAJCORNWELL
THE OLD PROVERBIAL RECOVERY 