Poems: Connection & Freedom
This week’s Poet’s Corner features a further two contributions from Kim Geraty.
Connection
On the bus looking around
people everywhere, not a sound
all of them inside their phone
oblivious to the outside tone
more ‘connected’ than ever before
but losing something connected to core
in the rise of machines, let us not become one
a steel cold future on the horizon?
Freedom
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Making footprints in the sand
I move along my way
choice after choice
colouring my day
but if I don’t like the colour
I can change my way
wash away the old prints
tomorrow’s a new day
the world is your oyster
choices aplenty
what will I do with my day?
The tasks are done
in my head I’ve won
everything shining bright like the sun.
Kim Geraty lives in Brisbane. A double science degree graduate from the University of Queensland, she has written short stories and poetry since a young age, and saw her first published poem featured on the cover of her high school bulletin. Also published in the poetry magazine The Mozzie, she enjoys a broad range of poetic topics and styles, including rhyme, and received a second placing in Sydney’s City of Ryde Eisteddfod for her prose-reading performance from Jane Eyre. She enjoys poi spinning, graphic, fashion and web design, and as well as the arts has strong interests in technology, innovation, philosophy and astronomy. An animal lover and serial innovator with entrepreneurial aspirations in social enterprise, she has “always wanted to make a difference”. An Instagram page sharing some of Kim’s short-form poetry, is at @kimgeratypoetry.