Lynette's poems have been published in the poetry magazines Micropress Oz (the Mozzie), paper wasp, Yellow Moon, Blue Dog and the  anthologies When I Was a Child and A Nickel's Worth of Dreams, published by PoetWorks. She has also had poems published in the Poets Union anthology 2004: 'Ask the Rain' and in the 2005 Anthology of Moncrieff U3A, where her poem 'Harvest' won the Open Rhymed Verse Competition.

Some of her poetry has been published on the Internet in the Treasury of OZpoet

She has also had poems published in on line journals MiPoesias, Mainichi Daily News: (Haiku in English) and World Haiku Review and in a collection of poetry: Poems for Peace in poetry.about.com. The Black Hills Audubon Society displays two of her poems: The Cliff and A flock of lorikeets I see.

She has written and illustrated an (autobiography of her childhood years in the small town of Yamba on the North Coast of New South Wales.
Lynette has a page called PawPrints on the Flippy web site. Her personal web site Lynette Arden poetry and art contains more of her poetry, which includes concrete animated poems, You will also find there some of her artwork, murals and photography.

first sun
between the pickets a geranium
glows

ruffled cypress
full of honeyeaters
singing

coral tree branch sways
into rising sun
rosellas squawk

garbage truck flourishes
a rain wet bin
red lid swings

asphalt glitter winks
heels clatter past
my hello

first published in paper wasp

Letter from Paris

Send me a letter from Paris
as we drift into winter
a winter neither harsh
nor unrelenting,
but rather a forgetting of heat
and a clenching of heart.

Remembering my young days
I shall travel into fresh regions
of thought and reassessment,
venture forth as any snail
from my shell into cold rain
and the aroma of discontent.

Send me your letter from Paris;
time may crumple behind me.
Poet from Paris or Indiana,
we will laugh once more at misfortune
and in this damp autumn,
again I shall walk spring streets.

Lynette M. Arden
published in 'A Nickel's Worth of Dreams' anthology (PoetWorks 2004)

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