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SHINE poetry fans, today it's a thrill to put the spotlight on work by Australian writer, James Aitchison. Please enjoy his thought-provoking poems: dada graffiti, Epiphany, and What is life in dada? Thank you, James, for being a part of SHINE! dada graffitiloyal but insincere redemption written descriptors in the mouth piquant, taste to reach heights upon which we dwell sycophant’s words I forgive you earth channels through Tzara’s country rivers sorrow a baseless emotion our primary means of communication Epiphanythe beast that should be free absolutely a cinquain Roman arch in fearful mellowness feet born again for victory parades through terror affordable and shady the sunlight on which we stand the sonnet cannot be pricked Shakespeare’s boketto elephant EDITOR’S NOTE: The Japanese philosophy of ‘Boketto’ is a practice rooted in the art of non-doing and peaceful reflection What is life in dada?crawling up golden drains of stagnant ideas frothy bubbly importance floating on political incompetence learning nothing because there is nothing to learn archaic men in cosseted stupidity croak formulaic wisdom, no thanks confused trajectories of mortgaged wilderness aliens invading the second drawer in my cupboard myths of hurdy gurdies swallowing angels i am wearing only one shoe you’ve just won a trip to Somalia Amyl is the capital of Nitrate cakes have urinary tract infections all parallel lines eventually meet hum comes before ho life is irrelevant so is Ikea virgins have joined the air force I want to be Gregory Peck the idiot in charge is the mouth of the world stupidity conquers all  James Aitchison is an Australian author and poet whose work has appeared in the Australian Poetry Anthology, Aesthetica, Quadrant, Shine Poetry Series, Literary Yard, Adelaide Literary Magazine, and many others. As James Lee, his children's horror stories became the Netflix series Mr Midnight: Beware the Monsters.
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SHINE - International Poetry Series
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From the international poetry community, we have a "luxury of stars," as Sylvia Plath might say, and it is SHINE's honor to provide a home for their words with the online Spotlight series as well as SHINE Quarterly. Click on the logo above to learn more. And...keep writing, keep shining!
In poetry, Samantha Terrell, EIC SYLVIA PLATH
Stars Over the Dordogne Stars are dropping thick as stones into the twiggy
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