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The End
Well, it’s been nice. I’ve decided to do the very difficult thing of retiring my blog. The reason for this is that, well, it’s time to grow up a bit. …
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 …
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 …
The Tyranny of Bacon
Hello writing legends, literary gangsters and enlightened beings. The time has come. Yes, The Time of Bacon. It comes in short story form in the Pure Slush Anthology ‘The Tyranny …
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: …
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 | …
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 …
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 …
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
Four Walls
The toilet wondered how many more smelly bottoms it would see before it cracked. I could tell by the way its silver ring gazed at me like one big eye …
If Only
If only the restaurant had been open tonight. We may have romanced by an open fire, red wine-stained lips posting words of encouragement, of faith, of trust, of companionship, and …
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 …
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 red …
A Mad Brew
“Kettle’s don’t whistle anymore | They rattle to the kitchen door.”
The Seventh Wave
Ornamental skulls in various sizes stare ironically from planter boxes and garden beds like lone plastic icons celebrating a win in the war against humanity in victorious colony…
Authors For Fireys Twitter Auction
Hello TLG fans, if you haven’t already heard about it, there is an online Twitter auction starting today to support the Australian fireys who are heroically fighting the inferno in my homeland.
‘Carousel’ in MiNDFOOD Jan/Feb 2020
‘Carousel’ in @mindfood_mag : “Janie loved her high powered job, the overseas business travel, the colleagues she met through work, the weekend flings with no-cling men…she even loved her recalcitrant suitcase. Didn’t she?”
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 …
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, …
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 …
The Literary Gangster 