Barnyard Chorus Poem by Terence George Craddock (Spectral Images and Images Of Light)

Poets in performance
various readings
bring your own... poems

waged four dollars
students unwaged
three dollars... participatory theatre

avant-garde
Aucklandisms

intellectuals artists
in feeding frenzy

Bohemianism
Ponsonby style
like-minded people

care to manicure
nail literary pursuits
urban artistic acceptable

Bullerite from sticks
wanderer adventurer vagabond
would not beg a bone

rejecting provincial
aucklandisms
contemporary herd mentality

no time
for provincial
kiwi poetry...

what’s happening
in Ponsonby
on exclusive marae

Maori models
therapeutic environment
inverted fables

popularism
promoted
guruism

pardon me
while I leave
farmyard mentality

an interactive world
problems social
race interconnected

awaits literary
inspection
upon foreign

shores
multi culture
get realism

Bohemianism
Ponsonby style
like-minded people

such poets artists
are provincial chickens
scratching out bare

spot upon dusty
barnyard floor
all hail hen house

clucking out time
of day

for a few
thrown

hand fills of swiftly
swooped upon
gobbled up grain...


Copyright © Terence George Craddock
Written in June 1999 on the 6.6.1999.