A Lake Sambell Walk
By Frank Prem
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A Walk Around Lake Sambell is a picture-poetry excursion around the made-made that lies in the heart of the beautiful township of Beechworth.
Beechworth is home to poet Frank Prem, and its Lake is witness to the history of gold mining that ultimately created it.
Short-form poetry provides a commentary to the sights and insights that greet a poet on his rounds.
Join Frank Prem for A Walk Around Lake Sambell.
~
over the pines
with the clouds
north
we roll
breeze take us –
held in a ripple –
to the other side
the future waits
over there
Frank Prem
Frank Prem has been a storytelling poet for forty years. When not writing or reading his poetry to an audience, he fills his time by working as a psychiatric nurse.He has been published in magazines, e-zines and anthologies, in Australia and in a number of other countries, and has both performed and recorded his work as ‘spoken word’.Frank has published several collections of free verse poetry – Small Town Kid (2018), Devil In The Wind (2019), and The New Asylum (2019). and A Love Poetry Trilogy (Walk Away Silver Heart; A Kiss for the Worthy; and Rescue and Redemption) in 2020, as well as a two part picture book – A Beechworth Bakery Bears e-Book and A Beechworth Bakery Bears e-Book (too).He and his wife live in the beautiful township of Beechworth in northeast Victoria (Australia).
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A Lake Sambell Walk - Frank Prem
About A Lake Sambell Walk
A Lake Sambell Walk is a picture-poetry collection that comes from a gentle wander around a picturesque lake lying at the heart of Beechworth, the town in which I grew up and reside in at the time of writing. Lake Sambell is a man-made remnant of the gold mining era and can be readily circumnavigated on foot.
Taking a stroll around the water on a gorgeous day in 2018, digital camera in hand, I was sufficiently engaged by the elements of what I saw – significant and trivial, both – to create a small collection of poems to accompany the images, and serve as a reminder of the walk.
I hope that you, too, might enjoy a walk around Lake Sambell with me, through the medium of this short-form picture-poetry.
FP
A Lake Sambell Walk
sea above
not a lake . . .
no
it is a sea
in the sky
above
white breakers
stretch
in lines
to their shore . . .
wash
over me
convergence west
shallows
to distant shores
a wake
of duck
surges
clouds
swim to converge
west
mirrored rumour
today
rumours
in the reflections
whispers
of
the other