My poem “Dropping Anchor” has been featured in June’s Issue of The Mozzie an Australian poetry zine (Volume 25, Issue 4, June 2017):
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Don’t Tell Me
Don’t Tell Me
Don’t tell me what I can or cunt do
Don’t try to censor me with your personal bias
I am not your mouth piece and never claimed it
I don’t crave your acceptance or require it
Try stifling my speech and see what a territorial bitch I can be
Try throwing archaic values you’ve placed upon locution I feel empowered by
Sisters in solidarity is what we should be
Instead the use of one term divides us
Disagree with me and shame me down
Shame on you for censoring my language
I reclaim the noun – the verb – the word
I use it proud and loud
For I am the CUNT who takes it back and brings it to the fore
For I am the CUNT who refuses to bend to your fickle contempt
For CUNTS everywhere –
I seize and celebrate whilst waving your policing views adieu
(C) T. Altman 2017
Remedy
Remedy
Stumbling preeminent neediness
Into stony seas of logical distress
Exploring with detected trepidation
Analyzing abysmal wretchedness
Commanding intelligent selflessness
For what purpose, point and pine
For the tumbling truth
For the painful promise
For the rhyming ridicule
For the salacious savvy
For the remedy of writing
Resolutely the enormity is me
(c) T. Altman 2017
Big Black Dog
Big Black Dog
He growls
He barks
He bites
He whimpers and yelps
Its Me who owns him
Yet He dictates my moods
(c) T. Altman 2017
Allotrope
Honey soaked, troubled notes
Pierced within cracking walls
Unreleased burdens, build and topple
Foraged for tranquil peace
Regarded as flotsam – inestimable instead
Paragon of the genetrix cue
Lumbered pressure allotropes does make
Verse (c) T. Altman 2017
(Image: Woman Aflame by Dali)
Female Walking
We want equal pay and equal rights
Who cares about fucking traffic lights
Tax Payers forking out the cash
To look at female signs whilst they dash
There needs to be more gender equality
But this my friend is simple council polity
(C) T. Altman, 7/3/2017
Inspired by the news that Melbourne council is adding female walking signs:
News Article Link: Victorian Pedestrian Crossing Equal Walking Signs
Astro
Astro
Conjuncting planets
Surface inner wounds
Heal Heal Heal
Numbing emotions
Starving the loons
Heal Heal Heal
Retrograde complices
Cultivates clear transmutation
Heal Heal Heal
(C) T. Altman 2017
A Tribute to the Prioress
A Tribute to the Prioress
Hoodwinked mink draped, disheveled
Acid lined lips, solarium burns
Archaic Bitch diesel, mingled menthol
Yellow talons tapping antagonistic dissimilarity
Vacuous ill-disposed soul
T. Altman 2017
I AM, Poetry by T. Altman
I wrote this poem and submitted to the Festival for Poetry and is now featured on their site:
tinaaltman.com 