Blue Mountains Poetry
Blue Mountains Cultural Centre Volunteer, Paddy Cavanagh, has submitted a poem that he wrote last year, just as the drought was taking hold and fires were on the horizon. We would like to share this with you in the hopes that we will inspire you to write some poetry of your own, please share your creations with us.
‘This poem, I wrote last November as the drought was taking hold and the fires waiting to take off on a visit to Minihaha Falls here in Katoomba. For some reason, the contrast of the Falls with what is the norm for the Australian bush jolted a memory of Lucien Freuds Man With A rat’
MINIHAHA FALLS KATOOMBA (November 2019)
Paddy Cavanagh
Such naked beauty shocks,
jolting-blasphemous
almost
as Lucien Freud’s
man with a rat;
The thundering water
crashing from high
into the pool‘s deep
quite, dark
jolting
against the blue-silent sky
above
olive-drought-grey gums,
the solemn-brooding sandstone
standing sentinel;
more jolting,
the casual careless comment,
indifferent to this beauty,
left behind:
a coke can
bobbing-silent
in the pool.
