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Poems with an eye on the sky

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The Finders Ranges and Australia’s largest bird of prey, and Darwin and its sunset beach markets are the contrasting subjects of this week’s Poet’s Corner contributions from Marilyn Linn.

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Wedge-tail

Majestic eagle circles high
searching for some careless prey
silently hovers in azure sky
to swoop and dive with precision eye.
Wide earth spreads far below
bird drifts on invisible thermals
eyes scan grassland rim
powerful wings and limbs.
Kaleidoscope turns.
Hapless dove now doomed to die
eagle plummets from ether sky.
Life’s cycle moves on without a cry.

Sunset

A band of purple cloud
hovers above the horizon
slowly – pink and orange and yellow
creeps across the sky
as golden orb slips into sapphire sea
smells of exotic food cooking
mingles with humid air
hot sticky people
shuffle up and down and around
at Mindil Beach Sunset Markets.

Marilyn Linn is a retired school teacher who enjoys writing, her family, and travel that has taken her to many places worldwide. In Adelaide she is a member of the Seaside Writers’ Group, Marion Writers’ Group, Tramsend Poetry Group, and the Japanese genre haiku group Bindii. Her poetry and prose has appeared in anthologies and magazines in Australia, New Zealand, the US and Japan. She has received a number of awards and commendations, and in December 2016 published her volume of selected memoirs Rainbow After the Storm.

 Readers’ original and unpublished poems of up to 40 lines can be emailed, with postal address, to poetscorner@solsticemedia.com.au. Submissions should be in the body of the email, not as attachments. A poetry book will be awarded to each accepted contributor.
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