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A Day in the Life of a War  war poem cherry blossom poem

A Fireman Writes  poem prejudice poem

A Mantra  poem rifle range poem

A Short Poem  oien sgirt poem short poem

Camouflage   poem camoflage poem military camouflage poem camourflage poem

Cicada Sun  poem beach poem New Zealand poem surf poem high school poem highschool poem teenager's poem school life poem schoollife poem Kiwi poem

Coming Into Harbour  gradnfather's death poem grandfather's death poem death poem dying poem

Desolter  poem short disaster emotion poem

Dissection: An Opossum  poem dissection poem disection poem disect poem dissect animal poem school poem lab poem laboratory poem laboratorypoem poem labpoem poem dead animal poem deadanimal poem

Dragon  dragon poem

Dreamscape With Giraffes  poem dreamscape poem

Dreams of Lothlorien  poem city poem urbanlife poem

Fragments  poem mysterious poem

Freeze Frames   poem Cold War poem coldwar poem coldwarpoem

Grafton In Spring   NZ poem NZpoem New Zealand poem Auckland poem Aucklandpoem poem Auckland poemAuckland poem nature in the city poem

Helen of Troy   Helen poem HelenOfTroy

I Am A Television Set  TV poem TV   My cardboard has corners. / My orgasms are shaved by a toothbrush. / I will pipe you a music of / Gouged shoecream marrons, of / Peppermint munitions, of / Koizumi haircuts, of / Hedgehog genocides and

I Remember    I slipped my kiss into your naked mouth. My hands

Making Peace With Bombs   We are feeding the children with promises / We are making peace with bombs

Men Without Amnesty - a poem about torture and torturers.  torture poem

Monsoon - Delirium's downpour / Swamps the tides of evening. / Gin sets lips to champagne. / Night sweats; pearls of sweat / Squat in armpit and crotch.

Mozart the Fish Embryo poem - pregnancy poem pregnant poem pregnantpoem poem poempregnant poem poem pregancy poem pregnancy

Nightmare Nightmare poem - nightmare poetry poemnightmare poem

Nine Steps to California poem

Petition for a Flat Earth flat earth poem flatearth poem

Poised Between Limbo And Guantanamo Guantanamo poem

Proze Poem  prose poem porse poem prosepoem poem poemprose poem proze poem

Sex Metal  war and children poem

Snails  snail poem snails poem

Sodium Thiosulphate  poem Sodium thiosulphate poem

Somewhere Far From the Sea  It is a cold day but the fat boy sweats, /Giggling his jowls to bouncing blubber,

Sonnet - (Gull Flight) - iambic pentamter poem - Through long hours the flare rippled flame / On harbour waters shoaled with light

Spam  spam poem spam

Still Life    Sits on his bed with his five mates round him, / Fresh from the pub,

Sun Poem Sheltered by concrete / Sufficient against nuclear attack. / The sun is a wet rag, breathable.

Test Pattern    Limp meat and a hangover / Slumps in the living room; The test pattern sucumbs to soap and suds,

The Death of Nestor   Nestor poem Nestor

The Death of Patroclus   Patroclus poem Patroclus

The Erasure of Certainty - a globalization poem.   globalization poem

The Face Fearful - a hypochondria poem medical poem

The Whale - a rather dutiful poem from 1977 about the wonders of the whale. The file contains a link to a rather more interesting prose piece about actually eating a whale.

The fireworks are numb. Their vocal chords are gelatine / The car is combusting, combusting, combusting.

The Kraken Wakes The little silver fish / Scatter like shrapnel

The quality of glass is light. Her touch is vanilla.

This Working Life Gouged by alarm clocks, harassed / By the feathers of soap. / Her face slips sideways. / The newspapers are preaching giraffes.

Tonga - medical aid mission Shrill antennae of hurricane / Worry the roof. / The spray drifts in the wind. / Yesterday, I swam / Adrift in the sponge-bath sea. /In the laboratory, / Clotted blood and faeces -

Toward Ten O'Clock - a city poem, a poem of urban life.

Trojan War - selected poetry related to the Trojan War with commentary.

very short poems - includes:-

The Fish
Van Gough
Sunflower
Cherry Blossom, April 2003
Odysseus on Delos
Warpoem
Warpoets