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Night Lights

by Agi Dobson For a while lamp-lit homes glitter on the darkening hill then, like fireflies go out one by one no moon tonight the twinkling stars and fairy-dust of the milky way light the night skimpily just bright enough…

176 Steps

by Jo Whitelaw A limestone tower, where oceans meet, still standing strong after a hundred and thirty years. The giants of the sea pass, unperturbed by tourists or the imposing monolith, and torrents of wind threaten in vain as waves…

Udaipur at Dusk

by Vanessa Proctor Darkness begins to extinguish the remnants of the day. After the roar and clatter of the train in the third-class women’s carriage, all is quiet. I place my worn backpack on the ancient stone floor, sit on…

Hey, Down Under: A Villanelle

by Jonathan Cant a villanelle Hey, Down Under, you’re going south these days and some would say that apathy’s to blame. No longer do I like your words or ways. In media’s bottom paddock, dumb sheep graze on weeds grown…

Ness of Brodgar

by Carl Walsh small sacrifice in slow scheme serrated drawn from hand or bite of wind at back structures beneath fold into furrow grey day keeps company ghosts lap hungrily at edge fall away – this fingerbreadth of land

Blackheath Battens Down

by Richard Clarke High in the Blue Mountains, halfway to heaven, full of quiet streets and weathered houses, Blackheath was the favourite holiday haunt of Sydney Anglican ministers like my father. No phone, no TV, no pesky parishioners, but familiar…

traveller’s ode

by Pat Saunders take me to the city where I lose myself clicking cameras suits sashay betwixt checkerboard red, black splashes battling brollies squirrels Hyde in plain sight your Eye always watching let me ride your underground multicoloured maze rainbow…

Louise Hopewell

Louise Hopewell is a Naarm/Melbourne-based poet, playwright and songwriter. Louise is a proud member of the Fringe Myrtles haiku group and her haiku awards include first place in the inaugural John Bird Dreaming Award for Haiku, 2020. When not writing,…

wanda amos

wanda amos lives in Old Bar, NSW. Her haiku and tanka have been published in several online blogs, forums and journals. Now retired, she enjoys travel, beach and bush walking, photography and haiku writing. Her Websites: wandas wandarings on Facebook…

Tuyet Van Do

Tuyet Van Do lives in Melbourne, Australia. She loves poetry and writes whenever inspiration strikes. Her work has been widely published in various journals and anthologies. She was nominated for the Touchstone Award for Individual Poems in 2022, and was…