A Poem for you & Cafe Poetry Reading at Rylstone

With five themed days of activity, WRITE, BUY, SHARE, LIVE and CELEBRATE Australian poetry, the week aims to raise awareness, appreciation and participation of the Australian community with this engaging, but often overlooked, art form. Share the joy of Australian poetry in all its forms: at work, at home, at play, with friends, in a library, on a blog...

Here is a poem for you by Kandos poet Leanne Wicks:

Lady Capertee

I

Gentle-breasted mountains

blue infused valleys

undulate lovingly,

jewelling over ancient land.

II

Industrial phallusy gangs

at nape of gorge,

thrusting hydraulic maw.

Devouring. Deflowering.

Keen to hack black soul.

Gaia now prostrate and open cut.

Pseudo mounds desecrate,

pouting brothel-best as promises

penned in peripheral portfolios authorise

unscheduled mastectomy.

III

Redeem her! Arise and protect.

Restore the Promised Land.

Cape her tealed vales,

cherish her beauty,

chide her captors.

Lest decades of naked disgrace

change the pace of our

charmed hamlets.

Cafe Poet Leanne Wicks will be hosting a poetry reading at Cafe Louee, 82 Louee Street, Rylstone on Saturday 17 September from 2 - 3pm. Everyone is welcome to come along and you are invited to bring your own work to recite or a favourite poem to share. Cafe Poet is supported by Australian Poetry. Thank you Leanne.