At the beginning of Overland Overloaded, we sent out a call for haiku written about Melbourne poets. 2007 Australian National Poetry Slam winner Marc Testart responded with gusto. Here are his efforts, accompanied by the photographs from the wonderful Michael Reynolds, who went home on Sunday night cradling an Overload award for his utterly outstanding contribution to Melbourne poetry. Please add to the comments section your own haiku about an Overload poet.
Mozart chews up Joyce
And spits out Patpong nightmare;
Santo Cazzati
Black keys on white ones
Tap O’Sullivan’s strings, a
Heartbreak minstrel sings…
Listen to her fire!
Continental shifting sands
Her black heart; Clarke burns…
Stardust lover left;
So Whelan rode in rusty;
Tear-drops fell misty…
Lemon cupped his hands
For rising dawn’s reflection;
A beatbox maestro…
Behold Smart by name!
Dressed in paradox, babbling
A loose straight-jacket…
Humble mountain spews
Comic strudel belly laugh
Pobjie; murmur; bleak…
Eye to the future
Gingatao anti-haiku;
Twenty ten vision.
for Matt Hetherington:
haiku reading -
a two year old applauds
her father
josephine rowe stands
and the room has shuffled still
frozen for whole set
Aww Marc, so sweet : )
lewis scott / oh man
those gentle jazz cat ramblings
come back soon brother