So if you haven't seen your poem yet we will get to it in the coming weeks.
If you would like to submit a poem please send it to editor@benallaensign.com.au with a recent photo of yourself.
This week's poem is called The Tree and is written by Mr Richard Barber.
I stand alone I am the last one now,The sap has long since left my lofty boughsWhere once amongst my silvery blossomCurled the blue furred mountain possum
I watched the tree, it stood alone,The sky was dark against the stormWhich sought to end the day,The stubble bleached in long white linesAbove the hardened clay.
The tree stood out too stark, too tenseTo bear the weight of the offence.It rose upon its rotted toesI watched as leaning out it goes
Gone with the rest.Thank God no stump, the grey stone of a tree,But just the memory.
More from this week's Ensign:
- Cameras to catch Reef Hills dumpers
- Benalla SES supports Geelong tornado clean-up
- Lake Benalla stocked with native fish
- Benalla residents support BLM movement
- Former Benalla boy Chris Stoltz given Queen’s Birthday honour
- Mayor addresses cinema move concerns
- Arundel St Oval upgrades under way
- Goorambat wins grant to thank ADF
- Community garden going strong after more than a decade
- Coronavirus restrictions to be eased
- Relocating North-East line in Benalla a ‘shovel-ready’ project?
- Benalla Auto Club and Winton pay tribute to Dr John Moran
- Former West Gate Tunnel employees feel misled and discarded