Category: Poetry and observations
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Storm coming
There was a time in the clearing in the forest where I live, that the rain refused to come, but the days and nights were humid, sticky and unbearably hot. We looked out for storms.
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Roadrunner blues
This came out of a random silly conversation with my good mate Phil. It makes no sense to me. Well, a little bit.
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Skittering ibises
Sunset smoke at my friends’ place in Sunshine Coast hinterland. Lots of birds settling down for the night, playing in the lake.
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Insiders/Outsiders
I think this came out of me drifting away from a conversation with some silly people.
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People processing
I started writing this in 2013, after another inept piece of cruelty carried out by our government of the time. Sad to say, that even with a new more progressive mob in Canberra, people are still suffering, traumatised and disappointed, in detention.
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Centrelink glimpse
A few years ago I was waiting in Bondi junction Centrelink to see about becoming a carer for my Mum. This is how it felt.
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Old on the outside
My mate Grahame, recently came to visit from Essex, England. We’ve known each other since the late 60s at Sydney University. He was about to drop out of electrical engineering to become a pop star and I was about to drop out of Medicine and get a job. Fast forward fifty odd years and he…
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Crumbling
Here’s a new poem I’ve been playing with lately. Thoughts from thinking about unhappy relationships that don’t resolve themselves.
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Poetry pack number 13
Here are two longer narrative poems in the style of mythical Australian bush ballads. Intimations of inebriety is mentioned as a poem written by Banjo Reilly, the local town poet in Will Christie’s “Under Mulga Wood”. Written as an homage to Dylan Thomas’s “Under Milk Wood”, it is set in a dying country town in…
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