Poor Writers of Song

What started as a simple poetry exercise became a labor of attentive craft, embracing revision and refinement.

Enjoy this piece in iambic blank verse, where tone, style, and metrical variation weave together to enrich a poem rooted in thought, feeling, and form.

The Spirit of the Serene Night-Quiet

Partly inspired by ‘An ordinary evening at Hamilton’ by D Malouf — a reflection on how Nature’s boundlessness offers comfort, rather than making one feel small and insignificant.