We come sit down
About loss and endurance

Garden of Delight
This timeless and intricate moment

Marmalade defies rationality
But then, when was love ever rational?

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Gillian Savage is an Australian poet living in Sydney. She is interested in the forms and shapes of language, especially the non-linear possibilities of poetry. She sees poetry as a language of special precision which requires discipline as well as 'inspiration'.

For her, the reward is in the piece itself. That the piece may reach others is a special bonus.

So, poetry is regarded as an art form or a state of mind. It is an artform that has been central to human cultural life since the beginning of recorded history. In fact, many of the earliest recorded writings were in poetic form. Homer's Illiad and the early Indian religious texts are examples.

And today, poetry continues to thrive, especially in this newest human invention, the Internet. Poetry seems to be the literary form which is most suited to the Internet - especially the shorter forms which condense experience and transmute it into art.

When it does that thing it does to me, I know it is poetry.