Kensington and Norwood Writers' Group
Lynette Arden

Lynette Arden has poems, haiku and tanka and prose published in print journals and books in Australia and a number of other countries. Her first book of poetry 'A Pause in the Conversation was published in New Poets 15 (Friendly St Poets and Wakefield Press) in 2010.

She convenes Bindii Japanese Genre Poetry Group and is the SA Representative for the Australian Haiku Society in South Australia.

She runs websites for a number of community groups.

Lynette is a Volunteer at Adelaide Zoo and convenes two classes at Adelaide University of the Third Age.
Early Morning Images

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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