hugh wade

Tag: reflections

  • Travels in June southern winter

    Travels in June southern winter

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    Lucky me, still working at what I love. Occasionally. Nowadays though, when I do, I travel across the ditch. Here’s some random photos of things that caught my eye. And some weird rabbits at a Sydney airport hotel. That’s another story. More to come in August

  • Crumbling

    Crumbling

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    Here’s a new poem I’ve been playing with lately. Thoughts from thinking about unhappy relationships that don’t resolve themselves.

  • Poetry pack number 9

    Poetry pack number 9

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    Back in the cafe village by the sea for a while. For a short time, I read poems semi regularly on the community radio station Bondi Radio. Once I was asked to write a poem about hindsight, and one about Halloween. Here they are. Blue days. Conversations and thoughts about depression, triggered by a sense…

  • Poetry pack number 7

    Poetry pack number 7

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    Some of these relate to summer in Europe 2008. Others arrived in my brain a few years earlier or later. Conspiracy of elders When we all had hair World Cup football 2006 Antaris finis Antaris is an annual summer festival, held somewhere in the German countryside, between Berlin and Hamburg. Three days of mostly psy…

  • Poetry pack number six

    Poetry pack number six

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    Spam poem One day going through my spam folder, as you do, I thought some of them were so ridiculous, they could make a good poem. So here we are. Kisses across the planet So embarrassing! I thought there was an element of attraction between me and a lovely DJane that I met. I wrote…

  • Poetry pack number four

    Poetry pack number four

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    Lifebeats Youth grant Balm Tartangi woman Understanding sweet sorrow November moon

  • Poetry pack number three

    Poetry pack number three

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    Men in tracksuits Sad smiling Aphrodite Country summer City winter Inches away from millimetre perfect Red light clatter

  • Without a phone

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    Without a phone   Without a phone first time in long time Highlights dependence on instant communication   Across the globe My country is now the world at large Not just my island in the South Where life is easy and sunny   Something about Europe has got into my blood The languages, culture, the…

  • Random travel jottings

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    Random travel jottings   hard to think about there while immersed in here   English cops with machine guns texting at the airport food counter flip flop changes over thirty years back then Spain had armed Guardia Civil England had old, friendly and unarmed bobbies   London, England, a disappointment expensive, over-rated, under-resourced cold, rainy…

  • Reflections while sleepless and restless

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    Introspection in the Berlin night time. Thoughts of home and comfort, travel and loneliness. Poetry & photographing things Serving as distractions of the shy From participation in the life of others Abstract data gathering of the now For sometime future presentation As observations from a past imperfect Then what’s left In the space between The…