We’re also celebrating National Poetry Day on August 23 by providing all patients at Dunedin’s Mercy Hospital, with a poetry postcard on their lunch time meal tray. We selected 10 poems, offered them to 10 artists and their response to their chosen poem will be featured on the reverse side of 10 poARTry cards. The original artworks will be on display and for sale at Mercy.
Love in the Early Winter
I open the window
and breathe in so much air
that the rest of the world pauses
through lack of oxygen.
I am gulping in the serenity
of early winter in the morning.
There’s no bustle of breeze
so the grasses are still,
and the water race is duty bound
to reflect a frame of land.
This is the best season for light,
which flings itself
in acrobatic angles on whatever
takes its fancy.
The view spreads
up the valley and waits
by the hills.
Poet – Jenny Powell Artist – Anna Reid when there’s no need for words, but you want to stay in touch, send a PoARTry card. waitingroompoems.wordpress,com
Poems in the Waiting Room (NZ) 