Category Archives: Poets Corner

Lait to the Debate

Painting and Poem by Lehan Winifred Ramsay achieve approve arise backlash barrage beach-side better brands business car oil cast cheesecake cogent collapse commercial complacency conformity co-operation critique danger deep deep down degrading desire direction domestic economic emaciated embrace engagement eroded … Continue reading

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What you need and what you want

Poem and Graphic by Sandshoe What you need and what you want (A Personal Poem to uneducated indifference) …To be spoken as a rhyming riddle…   What you need and what you want might be two different things yes the … Continue reading

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Laddie Come Home

For days, it seems, we’ve lost our dog We wander round in hazy fog Our fear, it seems, – he’s run away He’s spat the bone, No more Dog play. We wouldn’t give him up for quids Sad old Crikey … Continue reading

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Who’s a clever boy, then ? Gooboy !

Best in Show We have the greatest Moon Dog on Earth He fills bleak days with riot and mirth He never rolls over or has to beg Just pisses on the bastards’ leg. And in return gets pats on head … Continue reading

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The Horse*

By Christina Binning Wilson (aka Sandshoe) I have dreams to tell and you would have me quiet demureness your necessity I have dreams to sell and you would tell me chastity. Be still. There is a horse. It is in … Continue reading

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Fable in Black (and White)

By  Sean O ‘ Something of the Irish Kiss Tribute Band Submitted by Ern Malley’s Cat Back when not everything was as it is now, there was a band of four black and white birds. Butcherbird, Magpie, Currawong and Crow. … Continue reading

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Letter to a Far Away Lover

The Pig’s Arms welcomes Miss Nom de Plume Am I in your arms – at least in your imagination? Are your fingers undoing my buttons as your lips caress my neck? Can you feel my hands under your shirt – … Continue reading

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Growing Pains

The owner of the second factory and wooden leg had a curious way of dealing with others. His mouth did not just contain a fag with brown spittle leaking, but mouth was also set permanently at twenty past eight o’clock … Continue reading

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Cognac, even after Death. (there is hope)

A mysterious visitor who each year leaves roses and cognac on Edgar Allen Poe’s tomb in Baltimore, Maryland, has missed his rendezvous for the first time in 61 years, the Poe Society said. “He did not show up this morning,” … Continue reading

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Westfield Lovesong

Let us leave then, you and I where the suburbs stretch out like pizza pie and by the mall the women come and go talking of woolworths and bi-lo the maclaren prams that through the streets flow like a tedious … Continue reading

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