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2006 - North Keppel Island

This is a selection of poems that were produced at the 2006 Kanomi, North Keppel Island writer's workshop.
With thanks to Fiona Marshall for the images

Overcast

Helen Avery

The day is grey
but not so heavy that I can be sure
if it is blowing sea mist or rain.
All I know
is that it is lighter on my face
and more gentle than tears
and that tiny crabs
have drawn flowers and exploding stars
across the sand
and that if I keep my face
to the ocean and the wind
I do not notice
the prime real estate
that crawls across the hills
rolling up behind the dunes
and the blue grey sea grass. 

Life becomes an ocean
where time is measured by millennia
and textured by the dragging of the tides.

There’s a far ship
the wind turning cold
the sea turning the colour of bruises
and two boys swinging from coloured sails.
Returning home across wet sand
I do not even recognize my own footprints

  

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Morning in Capricorn

Jena Woodhouse

a weather retrospective

What's the weather like today
in Capricorn? From mornings past,
I visualise the aspect of the bay,
the sky still bearing phosphorescent
tracings from the flight of stars,
the sea ashimmer, nacreous
with glaze of pearly nautilus,
like a garden, criscrossed
with the fresh trails
of a million snails...

On the farm, trees yawn
and stretch, luxuriating,
scenting breeze, rearranging
foliage like plumage
as they shrug off dreams.

 

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Island Memories

Debbie Clayton

Childhood memories resurface
Excitement, new experiences, adventure
Kerosene lamps burning in corrugated iron huts
Wonderful tiredness from swimming and sun.

Snug in sleeping bag
Drifting off to sleep with adult chatter
of late night card games
Friendship, warmth, security
Child dreams of tommorrow.

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The Magic of Kanomi

Merri-Lea Pierce

Dolphins frolicking
Chasing frightened flying fish
On Considine Beach.

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