Stefanie Bennett- A Poem

THE CHINESE ‘HAMLET’, Tu Fu    

 

At a loose end, I once

Nursed an adversary

Closer than

A robo-cop

In the vernacular:

 

Blah! Now I’ve to learn

The slipknot

Of Li Po’s

Ornamental drum

And

The breadth

Of the Bodhi

                   Tree’s

Ashen branched

Tactics.

 

He challenges –,

“I pull my dagger,

I peer four ways...”

 

I commiserate. Say,

‘The floral path

                         Has

Never been swept

For a guest...’

 

Defence and offence

Is on

 

The traps.

 

 

 

Stefanie Bennett has published several volumes of poetry and had poems appear with

Mad Swirl, The Camel Saloon, Illya’s Honey, Jelly-fish Whispers, Shot Glass Journal,

Ink, Sweat and Tears and others. She has acted as a publishing editor and worked

with Arts Action for Peace. Of mixed ancestry [Italian/Irish/Paugussett-Shawnee] she

was born in North Queensland, Australia, May 6th, 1945.