This time for Poet’s Breakfast, we enter the intertidal world of Beverley George, so grab a cup of tea, and let your mind unwind… this is a breakfast landscape to lose yourself in.
lagoon sunrise –
the pelican’s bill keeps time
with my teabag
We live between an ocean and a freshwater lagoon.
The ocean is beyond tall houses on [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Poet's Breakfast’
January 31, 2009
Poet’s Breakfast #4 – Suzanne Jones
Time for that early morning wake up call! It’s Poet’s Breakfast with Suzanne Jones…
Wake up mum, Weetbix time! 2 year olds have no time for pancakes unless its second breakfast and mums always need time for coffee.
Pancakes
maiden sleepover voyage
her father at the helm
a Sunday breakfast
pancakes
oblivious
I began to seep
maple trees
saplings at least
until
walling off
at sixteen leagues
I baked
my [...]
January 21, 2009
Poet’s Breakfast #3 – Rowan Donovan
Ease into your morning and enjoy the breakfast ritual of Rowan Donovan. Pour the tea, sit back and taste this toasted life…
Part One: A Slice of Toasted Life.
The Japanese call it, “asa- gohan”. Morning Rice. The French, “un petit dejeuner.” Me? I call it, “breakfast”. A morning ritual I’ve prescribed to and haven’t changed in years.
In [...]
January 15, 2009
Poet’s Breakfast #2 – Jacqueline Turner
This time we head overseas to Vancouver and enter the dreamy morning world of Jacqueline Turner.
Waking with the Dictionary – One Poet’s Morning
I should start with a disclaimer to say that I do not have a consistent morning ritual. I am not one of those people who gets up at 5 a.m. and writes for [...]
January 12, 2009
Poet’s Breakfast with Chris Mansell
This Lost Shark has always been fascinated by the concept of the Poet’s Breakfast, seeing that the majority of poets I know are not really what you would call ‘morning people’. So I thought it would be interesting to ask people to write about their morning rituals, the importance of place and other such things; [...]
