Written by
Joe Massingham

Joe Massingham was born in the UK but has lived the second half of his life in Australia. Major employment has been as a Navy officer, university student from first degree to PhD, tutor, lecturer and Master of Wright College, University of New England, NSW. Has run his own business but retired early because of cancer and heart problems and now spends time waiting to see medical practitioners, writing poetry and prose and smelling the roses. He has had work published in Australia, NZ, Canada and India.

Chinese Village

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White house red tiled roof
small yellow flowers
grandmother sleeping at front door

old caged chickens stacked
on the village river bank
watching ducks swim free

trees with pink buds over
yellow and green bamboo fence
house with red tiled roof

weeding garden fields
workers using tools to cut
baskets to carry

sheds hold piles of wood
dried thatching reeds beside
fields of new spring green

Chinese village girl
studying at western school
China’s future safeguarded

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Volume 11

Prequel - January 2013

Verse

Chinese Village