Redback Mansion
A collection of poetry for children - sometimes zany, sometimes moving, sometimes humorous.
These poems explore many aspects of everyday life on the farm, in the city, at the beach. Animals of all kinds, cubby houses, things that go bump in the night, things that kids all know and relate to, are explored in poetry that is always fun to read.
Reviews here: Aussie reviews, La Trobe University, Bendigo
Here's a bite:
Sailed
The beach boat sailed
I'm sure it did
in the tide
when we were asleep,
it sailed out on a torch
of sealight
and went fishing
for sea monsters
and sea treasure,
that beach boat we made from sand
and shaped with our hands
it sailed in the night,
I'm sure it did.
Storm
The sky has bones,
electrical legs
that hip and socket
in neon strides
faster than a rocket,
all through the grey, clotted
thickness.
The legs somersault
to a drum's percussion.
Watch the bones shatter
gulp
then rumble
with indigestion.
© Poems by Lorraine Marwood
