Poetry
Walk with me, in my Secret Garden
My Secret Garden is a place Within that inspires me to create. It can be, drawing, sewing, cooking, painting, writing, making herbal products or studying. It could be planting my garden, listening to some nice soft music or sitting and drinking a cup of tea with a friend. It could be watching a good family movie with my husband and not saying a word during the whole thing. The list is really endless... It is that one place within where you can be completely satified, feel tranquil and sereni...

Poetry Comes in Search of You
Listen to Il Postino
The Soul Food Cafe provides prompts and challenges for those who wish to participate in the Pythian Games This is one, suggested activity. In Il Postino, Neruda introduces Mario to his world of poetry. He teaches him how to feel it and how to love it, and Mario, who is a brilliant student, goes even further: first he learns how to use poetry and then he attempts to write his own poems. Some years ago Year Nine students listened to the sound track of Il Postino and listed the words that caug...

Poetry From My Heart
When it really matters...
With all of the thoughts and feelings that complicate matters, sometimes you just need to get away from it all. If that's the case; come with me, to my tiny little world of poetic bliss. Let's feel what's in our soul and discover what it takes to move our very being. There are many different types of poetry, but I like to rime.

E. E Cummings
"After a couple of brandies on top of the wine Cummings would deliver himself of geysers of talk. I've never heard anything that remotely approached it. It was comical ironical brilliantly colored damnably poetic and sometimes just naughty. It was as if he were spouting pages of prose and verse from an unwritten volume" - John Dos Passos E. E Cummings (1894 - 1962) is an important, often overlooked, poet and painter. He is celebrated today for his eccentric typography and his light-hearted p...