There are many ways that your Adelaide Park Lands can INSPIRE, providing, as they do, the opportunity to step into nature right around the City of Adelaide.
The nature of your Adelaide Park Lands can also prompt creative inspiration, in many forms, from artwork to the written word and music.
We’re inviting poets to become inspired, and to make a contribution to help inspire YOU. Here’s the second in our series of Park poems.
Winter Walking
by Mij Tanith
I went for a walk in the Park Lands
Late afternoon
The air already cold
A tonic after the stuffy warmth
Of the house.
I saw a Chinese man playing
A trumpet
He blew me a tune on an
Oriental scale
It sounded a bit like
When the Saints go
Marching In.
I saw another man
On a hill
A silhouette against the sky
Whistling in the magpies.
They came to him
Strutting
On their thin dark legs
to serenade him
With their evensong.
I watched a young woman
and a little girl
Matching yellow boots
Stamp through puddles
Kick apart the sodden
Piles of leaves
Such joyous destruction
I saw a woman
Who used to have a dog called
Pearl.
Alone these days
She walks to remember
And to grieve
Image credits: Shane Sody, openart.ai
The poet, Mij Tanith is a writer and activist known for her work supporting refugees and asylum seekers in Adelaide, particularly through the Circle of Friends Australia Inc.
Mij Tanith
Make a poetry contribution
Whether you’re a seasoned poet, a first-timer, or a school student, you’re invited to share your Park Lands-inspired poetry with our thousands of readers, published here on this blog.
Please submit your poem, together with a photo of yourself and what part of your Adelaide Park lands you'd like pictured alongside your poem, to our Editor, Shane Sody: shane.sody@gmail.com
