Tag: 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. That was me last Friday night. I wasn’t at the movies. Not at a concert. No, not even a nightclub. I was at the cricket. The T20 womens’ cricket game between Australia and England. To decide the Ashes! Which we won. Heat, light […]
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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 TV I can wait with my empty cup You’ll remember, you’ll see You’ll bob your head up And stare full back at me And when our eyes meet yet again We’ll create our own […]
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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 Until I lose my strength and drown ashore Foundered now ocean’s false martyr Suns may rise, storms may fall A light shower washes […]
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I Grew Up A NewspaperMan
I grew up a newspaperman. My dad was the editor of the Canowindra Star, the local paper in Canowindra New South Wales. He wasn’t the grizzled editor from central casting : think of Perry White in Superman or Benjamin Bradlee in All the Presidents Men. No, he was my Dad (Kevin Whalan) : as he describes […]