Rob Cairns - Poetry
I am a Melbourne based poet who writes Modern English haiku, senryu, tanka, haiga and free verse. I am constantly inspired by nature and my inner west industrial landscape. I have been published in a few online and offline journals-- in Australia and overseas. Enjoy my poetry. I have recently taken up the art of linocut printing on which I've been creating haiga from my haiku poetry.
Monday 25 January 2016
South Gippsland
today South Gippsland
flowering gums
orange and red
roadside beacons
like our city neon signs
flowering gums
orange and red
roadside beacons
like our city neon signs
Saturday 16 January 2016
The Pink Flamingo and the Pelican
tonight sitting by the caravan park pool
with the blow up pink flamingo--
a pack of young boys
clamber in the pool
to tip each other over--
the plastic grass is soaked in chlorine
and sun burnt bodies are dressed
in fringed spangled swimwear--
a pet ostrich pecks
at fake grass insects--
I swim myself back to the lake
last night where spoonbills sifted mud
and we swam in the soft rippled quiet
watching a pelican carry the sun down
with the blow up pink flamingo--
a pack of young boys
clamber in the pool
to tip each other over--
the plastic grass is soaked in chlorine
and sun burnt bodies are dressed
in fringed spangled swimwear--
a pet ostrich pecks
at fake grass insects--
I swim myself back to the lake
last night where spoonbills sifted mud
and we swam in the soft rippled quiet
watching a pelican carry the sun down
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