Rory Hudson Poems

(A senryu)

My child blows bubbles
and chases them while laughing
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Invent a poem with a winking eye
That would enlarge its vision and be free
To let the whole damned world go passing by
Upon its way to hell, if need should be.
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(Mallee is a kind of low scrub that grows in arid areas of Australia, where it stretches for miles and miles. Saltbush is a low greyish bush that is also found covering the plains in the arid zone. A currawong is a bird found in the mallee regions.)

The currawongs screeched in the mallee
as we said our goodbyes at the door,
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Clad only in your girlywhites
you come to me, promising
nights of dark pleasure.
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(References to the nightingale and the Grecian urn are to the two wonderful odes by Keats, and the athlete dying young recalls the lovely poem by Housman) .

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(A haiku)

Come in from the cold:
in here, a fire is glowing;
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Important men work late
upon a Friday afternoon,
but for me, I dance my life out
to a very different tune.
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