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Happy Birthday, Oodgeroo Noonuccal! | Poems Rethabile Likes 🎂 Happy Birthday, Oodgeroo Noonuccal! Poet • Educator • Environmentalist • Indigenous rights campaigner • born 3 November 1920 Today we celebrate the birthday of Oodgeroo Noonuccal — formerly known as Kath Walker — an Aboriginal Australian poet, educator, environmentalist, and campaigner for Indigenous rights. Raised on Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island), she brought Aboriginal experiences and demands for justice to a wide readership. Her debut collection, We Are Going (1964), was the first poetry publication by an Aboriginal Australian — brought into print with the help of fellow poet Judith Wright, then a submissions reader for Jacaranda Press. Here is her "Municipal Gum," a lament for a gumtree set in bitumen, and for ...

The Fury of Sunsets by Anne Sexton | Poems Rethabile Likes The Fury of Sunsets by Anne Sexton Something cold is in the air, an aura of ice and phlegm. All day I’ve built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it. The horizon bleeds and sucks its thumb. The little red thumb goes out of sight. And I wonder about this lifetime with myself, this dream I’m living. I could eat the sky like an apple but I’d rather ask the first star: why am I here? why do I live in this house? who’s responsible? eh? ...