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LETTER by Lee Cataldi

The year seems long and post is bad I miss you most when I’m at sea The boat sailing unaided on course I weep Bitter tears above the engine Into the tiny sink as if  you are particularly absent in that solitude ringed by water in which  I have gone to such lengths to be alone And your letter that cross an ocean of pale green trees Stretching immense to the end of the visible horizon making yourself at home A camp fire a windbreak a dusty truck hundreds of relatives A new language like the original telegraph desire is a single wire that taps a fitful message in the hut in the desert  surprisingly transcribed and read The Warlpiri tapes breathe out into the damp city night and behind the liquid voice reading  kurdu kaparnkami yapa ka walyangka karrimi I hear a truck start and the sound of the mail plane. Daily life off-stage in a dry and distant land In your long skirt you cross the settlement surrounded by children laughing a puppet

Balanced on each hand  here is the white man here is the black woman look how she beats him over the head.

-The Australian poet Lee Cataldi wrote this poem in his book entitled “The women who lived on the ground”. The book was published 1978-1988.  The message of the poem is for the man who is waiting for the letter coming from the girl he loves. He was patiently waiting for the letter to come. The letter who takes days or months to be deliver, passing by the sea. Like whatever event he has on his life he was always longing for the letter. 

- What I learned in the poetry festival is people in every country really appreciates poems or any literature works. People have different thoughts and feelings about the world. They have their own way on how should they express it.

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You left me with crazy bags of confusion,

It feels like warm socks of emptiness.

Like your confused heart,

Together with your confused mind.

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Do you remember the first time we saw each other when you were passing by the hallway and I look like a crazy girl who is shouting your name? Do you remember the first time we brought each other foods to eat while going home? Do you remember the time when you told me you already had a girlfriend? Do you remember?

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REJECTED BANANA

You pick me out on my tree,

Then I feel special & free

You want me to show myself to you

Therefore, I peeled myself,

Little by little                

Showing you what is under my skin

Not knowing you weren’t ready to see what’s underneath.

My flaws that are the rotten parts of me

Sadly, are the things that you do not want to see.

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SCARED

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C H Y N E S S

Colors are fading

Heaven is crying

You are the one,

but now you’re gone

So people are telling me,

Stop hoping

Stop falling for him.

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My Firsts

The first time I met my friends.

The first time I tried drinking alcohol.

The first time I felt insane on someone.

The first time I started to like someone.

The first time someone made me feel that I am special.

The very first time someone told me he loves me.

First time I was cheat on,

and the first time my happy heart became broken.