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The Act
You wicked child!
You cunning foxIt is all a game to you
My little actress
Oh how well you play your tricksYes I know you are just toying with me
It shows in tell tale twinkle in your ey… -
A Childs' Land
Nothing to fear,
not even tear,
just think of me,
and all the monsters will clear. -
Momentum
living on the edge of obnoxious
by some freak of fate I escaped
nothing would tempt me to live here
the hope slipped from my grasp and ran off
the life slipped out of my hand -
White Lily
Sometimes I use specific writing prompts with my students to generate ideas and to offer them writing practice. I write when they do, and it’s usually steadily for several minutes. I try to offer a co…
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Word of the Day
A piece of river comes down out of the mountains
While I’m sitting on its banks,
Chewing the crust
of a piece of bread
Slathered with apple jelly
From that long red barn
Above the northernmos… -
Grandma's home
and we’d play outside
at that time of day
when it wasn’t quite dark
when it wasn’t quite light -
travel without a map
the splitting of the atom
and I felt my body surrounded by a chemical reaction
I felt the cosmic rays
that reach the earth from outer space
framed by mercury
it circles degrees -
Soldier Boy
She can’t forget her little boy,
who’s letters never come,
the silence is the killer,
that’s left her feeling numb. -
My First sale
Thank you very very much for bought my work , I have been here nearly 2 year this is my first sale, I am so so happy with this sale, I wish all the best thing and happiness to my buyer all the time.…
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Reconnect!
Today my daughters reconnected. They will no doubt drift apart again here and there but I hope they will always know they have each other to help out.
We just moved back to Australia after 5 years…
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Schooldays. That old gang of mine. Back to Chester Hill. ...
Willy, who was a cute little class-mate, in Mr Berretty’s class, tells me that I was already such a typical teacher, when I was 12 and bossing her around!
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A Different Repeat
I silently sink into the grass,
and drip myself through time,
hollow winds around me blow,
in this wisdom that isn’t mine. -
Rainbow Child
it’s the world of Salvidor Dali without a fence.
Be happy you’re a child, such a lovely little child,
for your escapism to enchantment, to colours so mild.
Lift the lid to a fairytale land, -
Daniel
She says I’m stranger to my own precious blood,
he is my heart, my love allowed to flood.
I am a king a god for all time,
he is my land, my heaven, my shrine.
I am not perfect though i never claim… -
Tyler
My son you will grow up,
though i’d love you to stay as you are
as constricted to your baby form.
you cant go very far.
