Thanks Max Wish I was a ball of energy -ah my old Vespa days P
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Andrew Burke
Sent: 11 January 2012 02:17
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Subject: Re: snap: two seniors
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.
--
Andrew
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