Bio
Anna Lind is a professor of theoretical physics from Australia. While her main daytime work and passion is deciphering the quantum world of light and atoms, her other loves are music and poetry. Although her writing in recent years have mostly been confined to the scientific literature, she has now returned to poetry and prose writing, triggered by her friend and collaborator's recent death from an avalanche. As if woken from a long dream, she has remembered the magic in trying to write.
Anna Lind
Scribbles
A poem need not be significant or illuminating,
In lofty phrases and sensuous metaphor.
Every stanza flowing with philosophic wisdom,
On this altar upon which minds must surrender.
I write sometimes simply just to complain,
Forced into a set meter and uncertain rhyme.
Its structure tempering emotional storms,
Making caricatures of banalities and grime.
The more precisely I set my worst to words,
Those feelings raw and honest and common.
More they are free from me to come alive,
To enjoy their own merry dances unforgotten.
Who cares what scribbles run on the page,
If only they are born directly from myself and true.
It's a history of a singing human heart,
Songs of compassion, triviality and unsure virtue.