Riches, riches and more riches on Tuesday Poem today

Tuesday Poem is groaning with treasures today. On the hub is Ursula Bethell's 'Time' posted by Wellington poet Harvey McQueen. He quotes D'Arcy Cresswell on Bethell: ‘New Zealand poetry wasn’t truly discovered until [she], "very earnestly digging”, raised her head to look at the mountains.’ After reading the hub poem, take off into the live blog roll of 30 poets from NZ, the US, the UK, Ireland... to discover a heart-wrenching video recording of Robert Frost reading 'After Apple Picking', and another powerful poem with nature as a trigger is posted on Helen Heath's blog. By New Zealander Pat White it begins:

And then, there’s nights humid hot

with the breath of frogs, croaking

an urgent desire, anywhere they find

the water’s edge.

Away from nature to the horror of war and a poem by US poet Melissa Green that hauls one dying soldier through every battle, every war there's ever been, leaving the reader in a kind of grief. NZ poet Zireaux diagrammises what has been called 'the best short poem in the English language, bar none' and decides if it is or not ... And then there's a host of other poems to trawl through including a number by New Zealanders like Richard von Sturmer and Janis Freegard and Amy Brown. Treasures all. Get digging.