Catalyst 16 Wireless Compassion
When the sky is eclipsed
By powdery blues that drip and gurgle
Into immense expanses that go and go and go
On incrementally slow steps to the edge of night
Slips over its phosphorescent cloak
Heats tension slowly drips off the horizons edge
Enough to lie on the bed undressed, a viscous
Suspension of stars framed by a window grid
Sails of curtains on dreams edge
And emeralds that glow ecstatic from memories
Undergrowth marked by a path of puriri crosses
Their madrigals of black moths
Filaments that swallow evening in instants
With sweet etcetera’s of night wind
OTOLITHS Spring 2019
Antarctic Poetry Exhibition
The melting sky
Antarctic Poetry Exhibition opening Dunedin Public Library
Fast Fibres Poetry 6 launches 22 August, edited by Piet Nieuwland & Olivia Macassey, includes poetry by 55 Northland poets
Erothanatos Vol.3 Issue 3 2019
Points of No Return
Undercurrent
The Sky Explodes
Extra Seconds of Light
At Sagaing
https://www.erothanatos.com/v3i3 piet nieuwland
Erothanatos Volume 3 Issue 2 2019
And yolo doves
Glissades in glissando series
Sattva guna (mode of goodness)
Samara (cycle of repeated birth and death)
Raja guna (mode of passion)
Ruxandra
At Puwera
https://www.erothanatos.com/copy-of-v3i2p2-4
Nga Kupu Waikato: an anthology of Waikato poetry
This is the river
CRYZANTHENUM BOUGANVILLEA CLEMATIS ZINNIA
TOTARA RATA POHUTUKAWA TANGO NEPHRITE PLUM
this is the river that flows through me,
khaki surges whirlpools + splash
rolling sinuous + tensile,
a taniwha breathing fogs + mist
pouring from valleys ignited by tui kotare kakariki + swan
loaded + heaving, stained into ignimbrite + clay,
the colours squeezed kokopu phosphorescent inanga
translucent trout neon arcing a flamenco haka
of petals leaves feathers wing + fin
they dive flick + twist
aerobatic sculptures + putangitangi
trumpeting
WAIKATO WAIKATO WAIKATO
shedding vortices of polarity + discharge
magnetic fields that pulse + kick
electric + luminous.
The Wild Word #36 Its a kind of magic
Watching the sky speak
Open to the world
On the wing of light
About Piet Nieuwland
Poetry is not a luxury, it is a necessary part of the creativity of every day.
Piet Nieuwland has poems and flash fiction appear in numerous print and online journals published in New Zealand, Australia, United States of America, Canada, India and Germany.
He is a performance poet, edits Fast Fibres Poetry and lives near Whangarei.
In a previous life he worked as a conservation strategist for Te Papa Atawhai in Aotearoa/New Zealand
He welcomes email contact at pietn@outlook.com