Julia Wakefield, this week’s Poet’s Corner contributor, describes herself as a visual artist and occasional poet. She has had poems published in several Friendly Street anthologies and the literary magazine Page Seventeen.
Everyday Madness
The man in the car
talks to the steering wheel
but he is not mad
the child cries because
his mother won’t let him play
with her iPad
his sister chats
to a boyfriend whom
she has never met
the girl with earphones
listens to another world
she does not see me
I browse through Facebook
at the open air concert
great background music.
Playground Tactics
They taunted him in the playground
they said they knew his mother slept around
that he was not his father’s son.
He said: “the man in my father’s bed
is no more my father than he is yours.
But my father is your father
for we are all sons of God”.
Then they were silent
for they knew not what to say.
Julia Wakefield was born and brought up in England by Australian parents, bounced back and forth across the world for three decades, and finally settled in Adelaide in 2001. She is a member of the Bindii Japanese poetry forms group, and Ochre Coast Poets, and is an occasional presenter on Radio Adelaide, Australia’s first community radio station.
Readers’ original and unpublished poems up to 30 lines can be emailed, with postal address, to [email protected]. A poetry book will be awarded to each contributor.
