Swedish Birthday Party In Australia

These are poems created by our community.
User avatar
Karin Anderson
Posts: 448
Joined: Fri Oct 24, 2014 9:14 am
Topics: 38

Swedish Birthday Party In Australia

Postby Karin Anderson » Sat Apr 11, 2015 12:55 pm





Butter creaming almond orange
musicians tap a fun folk pace
crescent moon cookie smiles
bursting with sugar and spice.

Dancers bounce floorboards
like rubber kaleidoscope balls
rioting rhythm to violin’s
haunting harmonic thrust.

A dimpled woman child
blond, breathlessly beautiful
pulls me on the dancing floor
to choreograph and colour

Rolls of red cloved cabbages
churns of blue vein cheese
slivers of silver herrings
twists of green spruce trees

As spumes of yellow blue tide
swirl skirts and nostalgia
tripping the light fantastic
to a plaintive cuckoo call.

We leave night full mooning
on birch tree’s memory’s swing
her white limbs outstretched
to a Northern Light sky

As we home call our children
their blond hair bobbing with sleep
car purring Swedish ancestry
to our Australian dream time.


© Karin Anderson, 2013.

User avatar
Joseph Anderson
Posts: 205
Joined: Thu Dec 25, 2014 11:28 pm
Topics: 31
Location: Kentucky-United States-America

Re: Swedish Birthday Party In Australia

Postby Joseph Anderson » Sat Apr 11, 2015 2:43 pm

Karin-This is somewhat remindful of our Scotch Irish type hoe downs during my early years in the Appalacion foothills of America..So beautifully
descriptive.A very endearing and memorably rendered poem.It does take me back home to precious memories

User avatar
Stella
Site Admin
Posts: 1117
Joined: Tue Oct 21, 2014 8:56 pm
Topics: 247
Location: West Yorkshire, England

Re: Swedish Birthday Party In Australia

Postby Stella » Sat Apr 11, 2015 8:42 pm

It is really lovely and interesting to know these things about the Swedish way of life Karin, you leave me feeling
that i have been at the party , swirled my skirts and dined well....thank you :D :D

User avatar
Tom Balch
Posts: 289
Joined: Thu Nov 06, 2014 7:30 pm
Topics: 74
Location: Spain

Re: Swedish Birthday Party In Australia

Postby Tom Balch » Sun Apr 12, 2015 11:20 am

I read this beautiful piece while listening to the music and I must say how perfectly it all came together, Karin. Thank you.

User avatar
Fay Slimm
Posts: 312
Joined: Thu Oct 23, 2014 4:09 pm
Topics: 88

Re: Swedish Birthday Party In Australia

Postby Fay Slimm » Sun Apr 12, 2015 6:43 pm

The party scene really lives as your words dance the page Karin - - hurrah for this lively Swedish party.

User avatar
stevenstirk
Posts: 217
Joined: Mon Nov 24, 2014 1:19 pm
Topics: 57

Re: Swedish Birthday Party In Australia

Postby stevenstirk » Mon Apr 13, 2015 3:38 pm

A wonderful piece Karin. I loved the imagery and the wordplay. Lovely

User avatar
Nightmute
Posts: 251
Joined: Fri Dec 12, 2014 11:01 pm
Topics: 24

Re: Swedish Birthday Party In Australia

Postby Nightmute » Tue May 12, 2015 7:50 pm

I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed the music, Karin, and the verse lends itself so well to the festive feel of the tune, Ma'am. Music, dancing, and food, along with wonderful company...what more could a person ask for? Most excellent!

User avatar
Cindy
Posts: 689
Joined: Fri Nov 07, 2014 5:45 pm
Topics: 75

Re: Swedish Birthday Party In Australia

Postby Cindy » Wed May 13, 2015 1:00 pm

So beautiful.


Return to “Community Poems”

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 15 guests

cron