Andrea has experimented for years with all types of writing but kept it to herself.
Middle age has snuck up on her and the passion for writing has never diminished.
Nation’s Ache is the first poem she has ever read out to a poetry group!
She is experimenting with all sorts of styles and feels she is only just beginning her poetry journey.
Nation’s Ache – Pike River
Alone
By the lake
Your lap and lull
Ease
My feet
Our nation aches
29 lights go out
Men of land
Of sweat and drool
Hard working men
A miners’ crew
And Midnight Oil sings a miners’ song
“Who’s gonna save me?”
No one can
Be still
Was it safety at your mine?
Or mother nature’s fury blind?
Alone
Together
We send the cool lick of our lake
Embrace you with its lapping cool
Dispel all heat
Lull your ache
Mother, give them back to theirs
To lick their wounds
And weep their tears
Alone
29 lights went out
Men of land
Of sweat and drool
Hard working men
A miners’ crew
And Midnight Oil sings a miners’ song
“But who’s gonna save me?”
