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    Beauty in Obscurity
    Beauty in Obscurity
    Beauty in Obscurity
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    Beauty in Obscurity

    By Andrew Drake

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    'The deepest pools of reflection come from loss and grief. Andrew Drake is among the sweetest, gentlest and most patient of human beings, but his life has been fraught by sorrows and recriminations. These he turns into a lifeline of loveliness, love letters to the past. That pain is a poet's best friend seems unfair. And yet it is in the sharing

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGinninderra Press
    Release dateJun 3, 2023
    ISBN9781761095481
    Beauty in Obscurity
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    Andrew Drake

    Andrew Drake is an established written and spoken word poet from South Australia. He was the 2017 South Australian Poetry Slam Champion and a four-time state finalist. Andrew has found success in countless competitions, including winning at the fringe festival three times and coming runner up in the Goolwa Poetry Cup and at the Singapore Poetry Slam. He was also the featured poet while in Singapore and features around Australia and has performed in the Sydney Opera House. Andrew often writes with the goal of finding beauty in the darkness and his poetry has been published in popular anthologies. In 2017, he cowrote a chapbook with Jill Wherry called Limerick Lovers which was published by Ginninderra Press. Within this collection are poems that were written throughout Andrew's life, signalling the conviction that he continues to live by, with poems he wants the world to hear. This is Andrew's Beauty in the Darkness.

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      Beauty in Obscurity - Andrew Drake

      Beauty in Obscurity

      BEAUTY IN OBSCURITY

      ANDREW DRAKE

      Beauty in Obscurity

      ISBN 978 1 76109 548 1

      Copyright © text Andrew Drake 2023

      Cover image and author photo: Martin Christmas

      All rights reserved. No part of this ebook may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the copyright holder. Requests for permission should be sent to the publisher at the address below.

      First published 2023 by

      Ginninderra Press

      PO Box 3461 Port Adelaide 5015

      www.ginninderrapress.com.au

      CONTENTS

      Beauty in Obscurity

      Acknowledgements

      About the Author

      Thanks

      Also by Andrew Drake and published by Ginninderra Press

      BEAUTY IN OBSCURITY

      The Journeyman

      I wandered up to him that night. He stayed quiet.

      His fingers intertwined behind his back.

      His eyes held onto mine. He kept his ground.

      This journeyman was heading nowhere,

      so I stepped forward. He stayed silent.

      He began to pace back and forth.

      The journeyman lived day to day. The sun had fallen.

      This wasn’t a game for him. He was a fighter.

      I saw no peace in him.

      I took another step forward. He stayed wordless.

      There were no more steps to take.

      The journey was over. He kept his grip.

      All expression had left his face.

      No one had stood in front of him before.

      They had all left, motivating him with their absence.

      He seemed bulletproof. Nothing got in.

      He could almost be anything.

      I could almost be something.

      He sat down in front of me. I stayed standing.

      His fingers intertwined on his lap.

      He saw an obstacle. He didn't owe me a journey.

      I had no plans of leaving. He had no plans.

      The sun was rising and he was ready.

      There was no peace. He showed no fear.

      He laid down and bled out at dawn. I stayed.

      His fingers gradually parted. His eyes held on.

      The journeyman never said a word.

      The Wolf and the Whale

      When a pack of wolves howl

      or a pod of whales whistle,

      I imagine they are singing

      ‘This is where we belong.’

      But what happens after

      a wolf loses its pack?

      Or when a whale wonders

      why it wanders alone?

      What if a wolf doesn’t howl

      or a whale cannot whistle?

      What

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