I never met him, but Judith, yeah, & youve caught her....
Doug
On 2012-01-10, at 7:16 PM, Andrew Burke wrote:
> Good to see they're still kicking! Judith was always a ball of energy.
> How's Tom now?
>
> Andrew
>
> On 11 January 2012 06:37, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Two Seniors
>>
>> (Judith Rodriguez, b.1936, &
>> Dimitris Tsaloumas, b.1921)
>>
>>
>> Vigorous poems she wrote -
>> ditto her body language.
>> She roused her students -
>>
>> all can be creative!
>> New then to her country,
>> I felt she stood for Australia….
>>
>> When our summer December
>> party lagged without
>> a bottle-opener
>>
>> she bit off the crown caps
>> passing round the beer
>> that might inspire us further.
>>
>> *
>>
>> At her house when I met
>> Australia's great Greek poet,
>> Dimitris Tsaloumas,
>>
>> of Leros and Elwood Vic,
>> though I towered over him,
>> his eyes burned into me
>>
>> as if asking was I serious enough?
>> I hadn't been but might.
>> His voice was intense, but kind.
>>
>> *
>>
>> Hospitalised once
>> for something dire,
>> when visited by me
>>
>> her bed was empty -
>> she'd absconded
>> with her drip-feed bottle
>>
>> to judge some urgent
>> poetry competition
>> for the promising young.
>>
>> *
>>
>> Celebrating his eightieth
>> at a large gathering
>> he'd excused himself from,
>>
>> she hobbled forward
>> on her stick to the lectern,
>> praised him with force
>>
>> and large gestures -
>> strode back to her seat
>> without her stick.
>>
>> Now he's ninety,
>> I'm about to make my visit
>> of homage to his Elwood
>>
>> address, its Greek-
>> picture-haunted rooms,
>> I'll ask: Dimitris,
>>
>> are you still not only
>> writing your worlds
>> but touring Leros on your Vespa?
>>
>>
>> Max Richards, b.1937
>> Doncaster Vic
>>
>> p.s. DT says he now has a four-stroke Vespa, easier for him.
>
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>
>
> --
> Andrew
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