Live Encounters Poetry & Writing 16th Anniversary Volume One
November- December 2025
Searching for answers, poems by Beatriz Copello.
Searching for answers
the truth wrapped in silver foil
words silenced like those of a prisoner
nothing said no excuses
gated utterances unable to escape
forces that drive denialism
paradigm asserting the natural
accumulation of critical anomalies
relationship of shifting parameters
broad sweep of measured reality
deplorable mundane alternatives
tired of the usual narratives
of power and triumphalism
dispassionate cold myopic
ingrained desire to make sense
of the “messages in a bottle”
LSD
there is a war within himself and he escapes
and hides in the solitude of the deserted streets
dark thoughts create an abyss – him versus the world
he searches but cannot find love it runs away
like a gazelle persecuted by an implacable lion
there are no kisses to appease his desires
nor water to turn off his passion
the south wind sweeps his thoughts
like dry leaves fly searching for freedom
freedom that only exists in his imagination
where coloured dolphins dance dressed up as angels
the mind hesitates and waits patiently
happy are those who believe in gods and fairies
he walks alone … his abode earth, his roof
the sky, grieving he falls sleeps and dreams
of a devil painted green and with the taste of salt
Terminatum
passion eroded
like some mountains
in the Andes
tenderness deflowered
like a virgin raped
passion drowned
friendship mutilated
anger reigns
in the country
of our bodies
embraces meta-morphed
into killing desire
repugnance rejection
yet …
© Beatriz Copello
Dr Beatriz Copello is a well-known reviewer, writer and poet, she is also known for her sense humour. “Her poems are sensuous, evocative and imaginative. Beatriz Copello is one of Australia’s foremost poets,” wrote Julia Hancock, Ex-Editor of Allan an Unwin and Freelance editor and journalist. Copello’s poetry books are Women Souls and Shadows, Meditations at the Edge of a Dream, Flowering Roots, Under the Gums Long Shade, Witches Women and Words, Rambles, No Salami Fairy Bread and The Book of Jeremiah and in Spanish Lo Irrevocable del Halcon and Renacer en Azul. Her poetry has been published in literary journals such as Southerly and Australian Women’s Book Review and in many other print and Electronic Publications. Fiction books by author are: A Call to the Stars, Forbidden Steps Under the Wisteria and Beyond the Moons of August (Her Doctoral Thesis).