Poem of the Month by Kim Core

Okay, it's new, it's different - it is here to stay. The Poem of the Month aims to enrich your life with imagery and words and our first is by Central West writer Kim Core who launches her first book of poetry titled in the NAKED FLAME at Cowra Library on Saturday 23 May 2pm - 4pm. Kim has been inspired by many of Australia's foremost poets and she names several - Rosemary Dobson, Ron Stevens, Grant Caldwell and Les Murray as whom she most admires. In the NAKED FLAME is a collection of poems inspired by Kim's reading of Shakespeare's Sonnets. You are invited to meet this passionate poet and help her successfully launch in the NAKED FLAME. She will be assisted by the Cowra Music and Dramatic Society and Friends of the Cowra Library. Special guests include poets Geoffrey Lehmann and Jacqueline Buswell. Everyone is welcome to attend.

***Makes My Heart Sing*** by Kim Core

we live in such a world

of hurry

and it's not that I

would like to slow it down

forever

however

I would like to prolong

some special

movements/sounds

like

the mouse's zigzagging dart

the kookaburra's laugh

the look in an eagle's eye

as it catches mine

before it goes in

for the kill

I would like

to be able

to transmit a message

that redirects his flight path

lets another wild thing

live

I like to hear the wind

breathe

its sigh of relief