About Poety Matters

Poetry Matters is a home-grown print poetry journal that began in Spring 2006.

Censorship can take many forms. The inability to find a place of publication can be social censorship.

Poetry is freedom. Anyone can write poetry.

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Whoever you are, wherever you are, Poetry Matters welcomes you as readers and writers.

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29 July 2012

Peter Boyle

from
museum of SPACE, 2004, University of Queensland Press, Qld.
p. 99
Of Poetry

Great poems are often extraordinarily simple.
They carry their openness
with both hands.
If there is a metaphor lounging in a doorway
they step briskly past.
The boom of generals
and presidents with their rhetoric manuals
will go on sowing the wind.

The great poems are distrustful of speech.
Quietly,
like someone very old
who has only a few hours left of human time,
they gaze into the faces around them -
one by one
they kiss love into our mouths. 

http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/boyle-peter 


http://cordite.org.au/reviews/bev-braune-reviews-peter-boyle/
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