Emerald13 POETRY

  Eucalypt May 2022 (hardcopy) Pg43

  ©Regina Piroska (Gina) Echidna Tracks #15 Open Theme  - page  

  ©Regina Piroska (Gina) Catchment edition4   Australian Haiku Society   21 June 2025

MOONSET - June 2007 (hardcopy) spring/summer issue of the newspaper  

January 2007 Modern English Tanka    

 ~     I hesitate. Stepping sideways through the unfamiliar door, I shuffle between sagging, purpose-built shelves, moving slowly to give my eyes time to adjust. A spill of cracked spines, piled one on top of the other bulging floor-to-ceiling marked by the occasional cock-eyed, hand-written sign, a promise of some kind of order. shadows curtain the alcove— a beard coughs Sections run into each other;  Literature, Do-It-Yourself, History, Cooking  is separated from  Self Help  turning a corner You will find  Tasmania  along a wall down the hallway, past a sprawling jumble of random miscellany and comics. There is nothing here for me. I head for the street. Fantasy by the disappearing staircase I hesitate. ~~~ published Haibun Today Feb 2009 slight changes above compared to the one accepted below ~ I hesitate.   Stepping sideways through the unfamiliar door, I shuffle between sagging, purpose-built shelves, moving slowly to give my eyes t...

  ©Regina Piroska (Gina) Catchment edition4  Australian Haiku Society   21 June 2025  a nod to Wiliam Carlos Williams " The Red Wheelbarrow "

  3lights gallery 2008

  3lightsgallery jan-march 2008

Swiss Miss (Implosure) 40″x34″; collage on a print of a collage on rag paper; 2015 published KOLAJ February 2018 Swiss Miss - so what's the story? Swiss Miss - the movie I have decided to bring onto this site, any of my collage and photography that are award winners and/or published. There are so many places to find me already I decided not to add another 2. !  Bringing them onto the poetry site makes the most sense, i think.  Let me Know what you think. I begin with Kolaj way back in 2018 with these few collages published. Current collage available for sale are listed here. are you interested in what goes on in the studio ?  

  published  Modern English Tanka   December 2007   volume2 number2 (hardcopy)

I enjoy 'found poetry' very much - there are a few techniques around this, each providing a found poem. (© Gina altered book found poem) In essence found poetry is finding the poetic in the non-poetic and reimagining existing language to create something new and meaningful. Here are a few possibilities and techniques. 1.  ERASURE/BLACKOUT POETRY - find an existing text and working your way down the text, lightly circle with a pencil the words that appeal to you i often read and re read the words i have pencilled to see how they run together - with meaning and or logical sequence you are looking to reinterpret the text to create a new meaning or focus using a tool such as texta, whiteout or digital editing begin to blot out all the other words until only the 'poem' is left/revealed. 2. CUT UP POETRY - Cut up words, phrases or sentences from one or more source texts rearrange them to create a new poem, often with a different meaning or focus than the original text 3.  CEN...

 ~ BEACHED (Haibun) Heat hangs, torrid, pressing upon tired shoulders. Touched by the occasional warm starfish an ancient, patchy, bird-shit monument kneels in puddled sand beneath a sky stitched to the sea. below blue sails billow over blue Ripples circle the rock where, in the tide's cloud-crawl, tiny crabs get on with their crabby lives and I wonder how words can convey this sense without images to the eye. On this slow, tedious, amplified afternoon, I lean against the colossus baffled by the clamour of these idiot gulls, ignorant in the art of give and take, because it's perfectly clear who should yield. crushed shell in a footprint empty beach ~ ©Regina Piroska (Gina) published Abstractaphy April 2025 published Drifting Sands   January 2022 - ed:  Adelaide B Shaw