Category Archives: Poetry

The Ramakien mural surrounding Bangkok’s Emerald Buddha Temple

Posted on March 21, 2023 by anthonyhowelljournal

Wat Phra Kaew is the Temple of the Emerald Buddha. Wat Phra Kaew’s importance as a Buddhist temple in Thailand owes to its association with the kings of Thailand, but also because it houses the Emerald Buddha statue. This temple … Continue reading →

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Rainbow Revolutionary

Posted on March 20, 2023 by anthonyhowelljournal

x With far more roofs than are needed, Golden eaves, bewildering embellishments, Porticos held up by pillars sprouting ardent Angels offering busts and candles, architraves And window-frames accompanied by legends, Threshold stairways flanked by snakes Disgorging snakes disgorging tiger-headed demons, … Continue reading →

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THE CAVERN

Posted on March 8, 2023 by anthonyhowelljournal

x Mere slips of girls behind masks are hardly what I am after. But am I that keen on entering this regal, sleeping vagina? Look what became of the wild boars, swallowed by an unforgiving Mountain who’d endured a love … Continue reading →

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Does it say ‘Gawow’ or ‘For Real’?

Posted on February 27, 2023 by anthonyhowelljournal

CHIT CHAT x For real, for real, for real. x For real, for real, for real, for real. Who who who who who who who who Snipped pips, snipped pips, snipped x For real, for real, for real? Who who … Continue reading →

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ACCORDING TO PLINY

Posted on February 26, 2023 by anthonyhowelljournal

The dragon, ever at war with the elephant, Is itself of so enormous a size, As easily to overwhelm the elephant, Seize it in its clutches and encircle Its legs in its coils. x The contest is equally Fatal to … Continue reading →

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HOMAGE TO THE DOUANIER ROUSSEAU

Posted on February 17, 2023 by anthonyhowelljournal

x Steep tracts of dry earth occasionally perplexed by roots Proceed up the aisles of perpendicular cathedrals. Bundled pillars of bamboo admit onto chapels of The unkempt wild banana, larger than a mammoth by Comparison to its pip-less and domesticated … Continue reading →

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When Nature Moults

Posted on February 13, 2023 by anthonyhowelljournal

The interrupted fall Of each broad leaf Is an event on the sun-deck Where the skin drinks in the gel. x The season’s a sort of dry autumn. It’s the heat that knocks off the leaves Big as faces, warped, … Continue reading →

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Three Thai Poems in the Fortnightly

Posted on February 6, 2023 by anthonyhowelljournal

Here is the link to Three Thai Poems published now in The Fortnightly Review. This old lady eyed me rather suspiciously as she chewed on some straw.

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Foody Land

Posted on January 22, 2023 by anthonyhowelljournal

The Sunday market manifests an erudite philosophy. All that may be done shall be done unto your titbits. x They shall be toasted wickedly, marinated, roasted. Bacchanalian bits of things shall be peeled and pickled, x Battered, steamed or fried; … Continue reading →

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SIN

Posted on January 18, 2023 by anthonyhowelljournal

Hot pants drop for cash. Now fallen spears change into silvery Snakes of light plucked from each lake’s modernist whorls That lead us where the bougainvillea bush bespoke For each lakeside testifies to concave curves And loggias on gated streets. … Continue reading →

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