Contributor: Stefanie Bennett

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The evening put forth
A light show
Of chartreuse cloud
That sprang
The blue dog
Spooking
The neighbour's
Be-speckled
Chickens.

Anything goes
When you're
Truly
Half sober.


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Stefanie Bennett, ex-blues singer & musician has published several books of poetry, a novel & a libretto & worked with Arts Action For Peace. Of mixed ancestry [Italian/Irish/Paugussett-Shawnee] she was born in Qld., Australia.

Contributor: Stefanie Bennett

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Walking the rainbow's trellis,
Sun slung on my right arm
And moon on my left...

[Whoever says impossible
Does not
Offend].

Levels of sanity
Extend,
Bend...

Just take that rainbow,
Heaven's
Hunchback!

Beautiful
To a fault.


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Stefanie Bennett, ex-blues singer & musician has published several books of poetry, a novel & a libretto & worked with Arts Action For Peace. Of mixed ancestry [Italian/Irish/Paugussett-Shawnee] she was born in Qld., Australia.

Contributor: Stefanie Bennett

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The dark has a door
all of its own
through which
shines
the begotten
love-light
of sorrow.

To name it - you
claim it.
That
argus-eye
high road
so faithfully
trampled...


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Of mixed ancestry [Italian/Irish/Paugusset-Shawnee] Stefanie was born in Qld., Australia & worked with Arts Action For Peace. She has several poetry books published.

Contributor: Stefanie Bennett

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It's no illusion:
that Pavarotti
finch
whistles
while
she works
beside
an ochre
& red
backdrop
one shy
octave
at a time.


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Of mixed ancestry [Italian/Irish/Paugusset-Shawnee] Stefanie was born in Qld., Australia & worked with Arts Action For Peace. She has several poetry books published.

Contributor: Stefanie Bennett

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I've played down my stock of years
And kept the improvisation:
For myself:

I designed the first heresiarch.

Mother to stone, feathering atmospheres,
My children hung as pendants...
The genetics of all.

I set the showground going.

The Muse had something to do with it.
The torch-swallower. The giantess
Of 'o' - and the gale that followed.

The tongue? It won't cease there.


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Stefanie Bennett, ex-blues singer and musician, has published several books of poetry, a novel and a libretto, and worked with Arts Action For Peace. Of mixed ancestry
[Italian/Irish/Paugussett-Shawnee] she was born in Qld., Australia.

Contributor: Stefanie Bennett

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Hard facts sleep softly
If you let them:
Like
Grey shepherds
Conjured up
In 'The Good Book'.

Such occurrences
The mind
Keeps
To itself...
Its humming
Self.


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Stefanie Bennett, ex-blues singer and musician, has published several books of poetry, a novel and a libretto, and worked with Arts Action For Peace. Of mixed ancestry
[Italian/Irish/Paugussett-Shawnee] she was born in Qld., Australia.