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Adele Ogiér Jones

Adele Ogiér Jones

tanka for the planet

discovering new
birdsong where forest bushland
was felled for man,
kind once more considering
planet beyond tomorrow
 
        (from  8 tanka published in 'Poetry for the Planet’ Litoria Press, 2021)

https://www.litoriapress.com/poetry-for-the-planet-anthology

Other works by Adele Ogiér Jones...
On the first of May

On the first of May Harvesting season tobacco auctions and workers grateful for the gathering
From the factory

A siren blasts from the rusted fac… below the tobacco-coloured iron ro… sorting and packing inside with minutes in between, whistles and horns from a train
Sunflowers in the Balkans

In the depth of winter greyness bare vines grown old with the weig… forgotten for as long as young min… seen only in memories of old men a… collecting their fruit
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Winter’s eve in May

There is something about a soft M… before it is time for sunset still warm enough though it will n… green all around refusing to drop
May day breeze

that drunken feeling as the world floats by warmth laps sweetly preparing the maiden with oils and perfumes
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Blue moon over mountains

Is the green and bronze moon you painted in oils over dark and tawny mountains and cloud covered snow peaks an impression of nebra sky disk?
Lost love song

We’ll never forget songs sung in days listening enthralled, delighted with whispered answers near dawn paired honeyeaters waiting
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Another May Day

May Day but no maypole here trees cut down as soon as they hav… like young virgins unfrocked ravaged destroyed



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