Tuesday Poem: (haiku) by P.S. Cottier
June 25, 2013
Gloves house hunger
moths make gaping mouths
finger tongues speak
Now that’s me, begloved in gloves which never had fingers, at the launch of Poetry in ACTION yesterday, in front of my poem, ‘April mornings’. ACTION stands for ACT Internal Omnibus Network, by the way. I bet you didn’t know that! (And it just occurred to me that some readers won’t know that ACT stands for Australian Capital Territory, which was set up so that Canberra wasn’t in either New South Wales or Victoria. Most of the ACT is national park.)
If you would like to read this poem properly, along with the other nine poems selected to appear on Canberra buses, please press this link, which will take you to a page within the Arts ACT site.
You can also see the short-listed poems, and children’s poems, if you navigate from that page.
It was beyond freezing in Canberra yesterday. Note the loverly weather outside the bus window in the photograph above. It may snow at the weekend, which is positively un-Australian. Next month, though, I am having a handful of days in sunny Wellington…
Click this feather for further poetry frisson from the tropical climes of New Zealand:
PS Cottier 
Congratulations on your bus poem PS. Sorry not to be there on the day (missed out on the fun 🙂 Cheers Lizz
Reading 270 poems for the buses must have been hard going, Lizz! You made EXCELLENT choices, though…(-:
Well that’s an achievement isn’t it. Well done!
I was speaking to one of the other poets, Sean, and it was his first ‘proper publication’, as he put it. I kindly explained that it was not always that good!
Thanks.
😀
Congratulations of the poetry action, Penelope–we’re looking forward to having you on this side of the ‘ditch’, if only for a short time.
Thanks, Helen. I tend to specialise in ridiculously short trips. I had six days in the United States once, and seemingly three weeks in the air…Not that far to New Zealand, thank God.
I am looking forward to meeting people a great deal. Will you be at Au Contraire?
Canberra is becoming very hip! Love the idea of ‘Action’ and your poem with the circles spinning orange from roundabout buses…lovely magery. Congrats.
Thanks Helen!
There are pockets of the hip in Canberra….Sorry. I am addicted to puns.
Magery (for I have read your second comment) is magic imagery.
magery is the new word for great images 🙂
Who thought moths could render such a beautiful haiku?
Bogong with your nice comments, Andrew!*
*You may have to google bogong…Pun alert is at crimson.
Awesome ambulatory poetry – congratulations – such a cool idea, I love the way you are playing with alliteration and form in both poems
– and looking through the comments – are you going to Au Contraire yourself? if so I’ll be there. Possibly.
Indeed, Alicia, I am doing 25% of a reading on Sunday at the Convention.
Australia just got a new PM, by the way…