Song - Michael Steven
HEYWARD HEAD - Hayden Williams
Do the Speed Wobble - David Howard
CLOUDS OVER THE SILVER PEAKS - Brian Turner
Under the Pines - Rhian Gallagher
THEM WERE THE NIGHTS - Kath Beattie
Haiku Season - Lyla K. MacGregor
Houses on Hills - Kay McKenzie Cooke
REQUIEM - Sue Wootton
National Poetry Day was on July 22. It may have passed into silence.
Run, run, Rhythm - Clare Arnot
MONTMARTRE - Ruth Arnison
A Brief History of Treason - Michael Steven
The High Country
- Rhian Gallagher
An angel circled above Ben Ohau Range.
Heat radiated from the schist, the air felt migrated.
When it is winter I cannot be here
but it is like winter's echo
immersing in cloudy blue meltwaters,
I shake with clarity and refrigeration.
AUTUMN SONG For Shona and Michael - Brian Turner
TENEBRE By Sarah Paterson
Oamaru Cavalcade - David Eggleton
Poetry is the art of the dark - Diane Brown
This week we take the rare step of republishing a poem that has already appeared in the Monday's Poem column. It is by Rhys Brookbanks, a University of Otago English and History graduate, a former Otago Daily Times poetry contributor, and a newly qualified journalist.
Hallelujah on the Presidential Highway Gore to Clinton on State Highway One - Sue Wootton