Wheels on fire (vocal)
uploaded: Wed, Jul 5, 2017 @ 11:32 PM
A kind of a contemporary variation on a sonnet, this poem is about one of Australia’s most beautiful tropical rainforest flowers and is dedicated to an early print-maker Margaret Preston who popularised it. The poem was published in May this year and the entire collection is free to download.
https://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.... Wheels on Fire Stenocarpus sinuatus (i. m. Margaret Preston) Not Dylan’s and not rolling down the road; A tree of lesser fame. Banana mini-hands in tropic views In clusters which explode To flower-spokes of fire in sunset hues Which radiate in fireworks of flame! A passionflower, exotic hanabi (The Japanese say fire-flowers – More poetic – fireworks has no soul) This showy vanity Saffron/lemon mandala? Parasol? No. These sparkling inflorescences are ours. The shriveled flowers are psychedelic spiders With nectar-seeking parrots rife. They could be starfish who have lost their way Or sweets for birds and sugar gliders. In gaudy tepal radiant display A dharma spokes-man for the Wheel of Life. - Rob Walker
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"Wheels on fire (vocal)"
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