Tag: Australia
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The Conversation Problem
The first hint occurred after a meetup. As we trooped off to the pub, everyone split up. Into their pre-existing groups.
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After the bushfire (a lamentation)
Ahead the greyed road snakes sideways Sunlight dappled left and right plays With the greens of the forest until Dark falls : a bushfires boundary of black. We drive into a grey smoke shadowed forest Peopled by charcoaled trees and deadened branches Silence between us until we reach the town Where there was not a…
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Australia Day
As a country we couldn’t even agree on the width of railways. As a country we can’t even agree on a national day. Or respect those who disagree. Every Australia Day is the same: somebody’s yelling at the immigrants, yelling at the Aboriginals, yelling at all and those who don’t think like you. Every Australia…
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Bang! Crash! Wallop! The Real Game Of Cricket.
Bang! Crash! Wallop! Throbbing music and flashing lights. People stomping, clapping and shouting.
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Roadside : Saturday Afternoon Tragedy
Inspired by the poet William E Stafford Travelling Through The Dark… Mid Saturday afternoon. All of us, Mum, me, two children in the car. Hot, not yet humid but dusty. We had driven from our place into town for shopping, I don’t recall exactly. What happened afterward didn’t much matter. We saw it right after…
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Never Unknown Again
You know I’m staring at you Though you won’t look at me Your head is bowed low Over Candy Crush or Apple TV
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The Bitter Sea
Mine is a lost soul that swims in a bitter sea Overlayed and swamped by waves of jealousy Caught and held under by a rising tide of night At the mercy of winds of animosity
Andrew James Whalan 