Poets’ Corner

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 417, 27 July 1928, Page 14

Poets’ Corner

ASHLEY GORGE

(Written for The Sun.] Rippling water, Rippling water; And, remote, A bellbird’s note, Cod the builder And First of Artists, Who set the mountains Mass on mass. Here is making Rhythmic patterns With black-stemmed birches Against the blue, And light and shadow On the green forest And sunburnt grass; And, remote, The clouds are sailing Through windswept air Silently, swiftly, Like leaves that float Down rippling water, Rippling water. Fern and flax-blade And toe-toe And shining surface Of many-tinted And tangled trees Are bending, swaying, Bending, swaying, Before the breeze, Till the long rhythms Of bush and hillside Seem like water. Rippling water. In remote And dim recesses Of the brain, H alf-forgo tten, Maori names Are making patterns Once again: Kowhai, ngaio, Manuka, Koromiko, Matipc Maori names, Each distinct As a bellbird’s note, Blend in rhythmic Flowing music With the sound Of rippling water, Rippling water. DORA WILCOX. Sydney. TRIOLET (Written for THE SUN.) Forget this love? . . . That cannot be: A. slave may not dismiss his master! And then, ’tivas this you said to me—- “ Forget this love that cannot be, And, let’s be friends.” Why, certainly. (Who fled so soon deserved disaster!) Forget this! . . . Love, that cannot be, A slave may not dismiss his master! G. R. STRAUBELh. Mount Eden. A NEW ZEALANDER’S BOOK OF VERSES “Blue Magic,’’ a book of verse by the young Dunedin poetess, Marna Service, will be on sale shortly. The book is being sponsored by Mr. C. A. Marris. The title poem “Blue Magic” first appeared in The Sun, Christchurch, when it won a Christmas competition open to all New Zealanders. An achievement in colour and atmosphere, the poem was penned while its author was still a schoolgirl. Her other verses reveal imaginative qualities -with Puck-like flashes of imagery. The book will contain some charming illustrations chiefly in silhouette.