Poems

Learning Resources

Dalgah
Jagunu
Yarabih barehbanu

make music
from the land
sing in dreams

~ Ellen van Neerven from ‘Gibam Garandalehn (Full Moon)’, Poetry In First Languages

• The Anti-travel Travel Poem
  By Adam Aitken

  The anti-travel travel poem suggests the road
  romance & regrets
  the endless paperwork we left behind
  I dreamed of walking boots that wouldn't lace

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• Throes
  By Kate Lilley, Vacant Dragon à la Subverted Lips

  This world is a ball – give it to me 
  or take it from me (if you can). 
  Quick, quicker, quickest,
  all the parts of speech apply. 

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• sometimes feels day and sometimes feels night
  By Andrew Galan, Vacant Dragon à la Subverted Lips

  Trapped in this cement and brick and gypsum and nylon work
  not compressed unmoving but walking and walking and walking
  finding repetition or transient newness at corners but no exit
   

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• Assembly
  By Vidya Rajan, Vacant Dragon à la Subverted Lips

  1.
  The bell rings.
  We march into the yard -
  neat hair, neat knees,

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• Principles for victims and others
  By Robin M Eames, Vacant Dragon à la Subverted Lips

  The patient is unfit to appear / in this Act
  in absence of person / the person becomes an involuntary patient
  when the person is admitted.
  A person is presumed / a person only if it’s appropriate

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• Your efforts are truly appreciated
  By Dan Hogan, Vacant Dragon à la Subverted Lips

  This permanent job has passed over to the other side 
  of austerity. Budgetary measures a perfect line of bugs.
  To hug a short-term fiscal plan through the long cold night,
  a terribly windowless must-have and must-do supersedes rest.

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• RISE — inaudibly, repeatedly
  By Ian Gibbins, Vacant Dragon à la Subverted Lips

  On Monday, they largely, chaotically
   ANNOUNCE
    ARREST
     BEGIN

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