CATH VIDLER

 

Chinese tongue twisters

 

The vine and the bell

On a green mountain
grows a vine.

Under the vine,
there hangs a copper bell.

When the wind blows,
the vine moves,
(and so does the bell).

When the wind stops
the vine stops,
(and the bell stops too).

 

Vague Phoenix

Red phoenix,
pink phoenix,
pink-red phoenix.

 

Miss Liu and the cowboy

The cowboy longs
for Miss Liu.

Miss Liu pines
for the cowboy.

The cowboy longs for Miss Liu
year in, year out.

Miss Liu pines for the cowboy
for ever and ever.

love poem

 

this is
a poem
about
a dream

about a
dream
about a
poem.

he dreamt
he dreamt
he was
a poem

slipped in
between
her sleeping
lips so

when she
woke she
spoke his
name.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Cath Vidler’s poems have appeared in Turbine ‘02 and Sport. Cath was one of the Turbine ‘01 editors and she is currently setting up a new online literary magazine called Snorkel.