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My Elegant Hoon

A poem: My elegant hoon, my flint by sunrise | Striking tar with her tortured car...

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Their Last Scream

Stop, be silentOpen your ears Listen, please, just be Present to their fears The longer you talkTighter the knot gets What have you taught themThrough noise, ignorance How can a …

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The Dolphin

+++ I am the dolphinSurfing life’s salty sea breaksDeep down I trembleExploring darkness aloneThen I surface breaking waves. +++ Photo by James West on Flickr

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He’s An Old Television

He’s an old television. He’s an old television. He’s an old television. He has tried to fix his aerial, bend this way and that way. All I can see is …

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We Want You!

We Want You! we invite our new comrades to propaganda nation | we promise instant gratification | follow us | this is your new notification | enter and take command …

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Happiness

Happiness is the tail of a kite chase it, chase it out of sight Don’t look down yet far to fall The coming down is part of it all. Advertisements

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Facing The River

As you face the river, I’mTempted to jump inSink without swimHeavy burden breasts As we face the riverContemplating inBoundless thoughts a brimNature’s nurtured tests As I face the riverKindling...

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I Am Lioness

I am lioness Striding through life’s open fields I prey ‘pon only that which nourishes me; but, Contentment is my demise. Thanks to Marc on Flickr for the use of …

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Dead Possum On The Road

Hi TLG readers. Here’s a little ditty I wrote about my ethical quandary about possums. I grew up in Australia and we were taught to call ‘1800InjuredAnimals’ whenever a koala, …

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Walk My Mind

Walk my mindwhy don’t youkick up a stonetake comfort inlonely thoughtsunknown to youenjoy the sceneryof my mindscapeand when you leavethink what you like.This is my invitationI invite you friend,for I …

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A Mad Brew

"Kettle's don't whistle anymore | They rattle to the kitchen door."

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Ancient Beauty

By Moonlight’s earby Ocean’s eyeby Sunshine’s dustwe sleep on primeval ground taking solace in camp tonight.Ancient Beauty, sublime, gowned in twilightstars are kissed by her cod lips, fashioned when...

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Expanding Horizons

We inhabit a world All around us All time Everything changing Renewing Things Transforming Transmuting To one evolving form Giving up essence Literature loves translations fed by every exuberance Every …

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A Covid 19 Haiku

Stay home wash your hands The heroic act inverts Do not give flowers Thanks to Flickr photographer missannafaye for the use of your pic

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The Fantails Came

The fantails came followed at my feetand I thought theywere here to warn meof death but theyjust wanted to pickthe bugs from theoverturned stonesat my feet. The fantails cameand hovered at …

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The Blue Nib

Hi literary gangsters, this is just an update to let you know that two of my poems, My Elegant Hoon and Hell’s Gate are published in Issue 41 of The …

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Aussie Bush Riders

Kookaburra | on a borough | full of laughter | funny fulla | oh what a life for he And a roo | sitting skew | by the pool | …

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Blackout Poem

Wait it eases off. Get home, gathered, very close and look up – we find it’s all right. Play: they be. For life, but all vanished picture faces – matter: …

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Vision

A S W E A G E W E L O S E O U R S I G H T B U T D O W E G A …

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Earthwords & Artlings

Kia ora Worders, Earthwords & Artlings is the name of AELA’s (Australian Earth Laws Alliance) Voices of Nature Anthology, Volume One, and features Ancient Beauty, a poem I wrote about …

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