Live Encounters Poetry & Writing Volume Five November-December 2024
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”
Chrysalis/Domestic Violence
he tied her legs
with bunches of roses
her hands he imprisoned
with love letters
the heart that palpitated
in the tortured body
with jealousy he pierced
and with his fist
he stamped possession
while he claims
“it’s your fault”
he can abuse and punish her
but one day
her eyes opened to reality
the prison of make-believe love
filled with valour she escapes
confidence regained
she marches head high
a new woman
who no one owns
What is out there?
flood of matter and radiation
atoms molecules stars
galaxies that populate
the vastness of space
space that envelops us
constants of nature that allow
the emergence of life
quantum outcomes
that become a reality
a wave function that
collapses into a single entity
multiple states of existence
parallel universes multiverses
phantasmagorical arrangements
in which instant by instant
our perceived universe
branches into infinite alternatives
uncountable versions of life
© Beariz Copello
Dr Beatriz Copello is a well-known reviewer, writer and poet, she is also known for her sense humour. Beatriz Copello is one of Australia’s foremost poets, her poems are sensuous, evocative and imaginative 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, Lo Irrevocable del Halcon (In Spanish), Witches Women and Words and Rambles published by Ginninderra Publishing. 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).
Wonderful.
Something to be read and re-read.
On fist reading I am fascinated and look forward to rereading tomorrow.
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