Poem: On being seated
Books & Poetry
When you take a seat, how exactly do you take it? Poet and wine whiz Philip White ponders the finer points of being seated.
On being seated
Once fussy about where I sat
the direction I faced seemed important
so having first moved the chair
to get it pointing right
I’d follow that up with further adjustment once down
it was a matter of what needed addressing
ruled by some cool subconsciousness
a flash shard of equations
the rapid sorting mechanery
delivered a sweet calm empowerment
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now I find it better
to leave the chair as it stood
take to it with keen interest in the angle it has chosen
get in there with a smoke and a drink
and scour what it offered me all along
I see a better range of stuff this way.
Philip White has been writing poetry since he was five. Later in life, having freaked when he read in Like This for Years by Michael Dransfield, the Jim Morrison of Australian poetry, that “to be a poet in Australia is the ultimate commitment”, he strayed from that one true path to commit writing of other sorts. Wine comes in handy.
Readers’ original and unpublished poems up to 30 lines can be emailed, with postal address, to poetscorner@solsticemedia.com.au. A poetry book will be awarded to each contributor.
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