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Poetry Prompt 9 – Open With a Question – Mountain Trekking?

Posted on May 9, 2014 by Michael

Did you really mean that? I don’t believe you did For you have cut me to the quick Shattered all belief. I was already to join you Paid my deposit Organised work leave And you spring this surprise on me? … Continue reading →

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Fairytale Prompt #7 – Grandmother’s Mirror

Posted on May 9, 2014 by Michael

My grandmothers house was an old worldly place with many dark spaces, many old things that stood in hallways and corners and to me as a child seemed to lurk about with far too much familiarity. In the centre room, … Continue reading →

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Conversation/Dialogue in poetry – Pick Up

Posted on May 8, 2014 by Michael

Airports, busy, hustle bustle People everywhere ‘Attention, flight 4354 from……..’ Arrived, delayed, landed, Arrivals is crowded, bodies scurrying Talk about a needle in a haystack. ‘She’ll have a purple top on You’ll pick her out easy, She’s a short woman, … Continue reading →

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Poetry Prompt 8: First Phrase – Last Phrase – A Fine Mess

Posted on May 8, 2014 by Michael

It’s a fine mess you have landed us in. The words blurted from my mouth We were at the check in counter Sorry sir, your flights closed! It was 7.25, the flight left at 7.50 Five minutes late. No go! … Continue reading →

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Tale Weaver’s Prompt #7 – A Piece of History – The Myall Creek Massacre 1838

Posted on May 8, 2014 by Michael

They’re a bloody nuisance. They wander about, through our flocks They steal our crops What I don’t get is they have this connection with the land and yet I don’t see any evidence of them owning anything. There are no … Continue reading →

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Poetry Prompt 7 – An Antidote to Nightmares – The Gorge

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Michael

There’s a road I drive into it Down into a gorge. The walls either side are sheer There are only two ways to go. It’s onwards I continue Like an explorer Seeing how far and what I might find. The … Continue reading →

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Poetics: Tree poetry – My Life as a Lemon Scented Gum

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Michael

Good grief but its hot My leaves are a canopy For you not me Where’s mine? It’s a drag of a life you know I’m at nature’s whim And believe me there’s an abundance of them. There’s the wind, Blows … Continue reading →

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Poetry Prompt 6 – An Unlikely Thank You

Posted on May 6, 2014 by Michael

I suspect this will be a surprise I have thought long and hard I find it difficult to articulate Even with the passing of time. There was a time you would laughed Ridiculed what I am about to say. But … Continue reading →

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Photo Challenge #7 “The Dove”

Posted on May 6, 2014 by Michael

Dawn awakens me I look to the light The silence deafening I expected you sooner You said two days But no word No call. I am greeted instead By this dove. It flies into my window As if heralding your … Continue reading →

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Student versus Teacher – Memories of the Classroom

Posted on May 6, 2014 by Michael

I spend twelve years at school and I have to say that I never really had a teacher who set me alight as a student. Sad isn’t it when you think that I went on to be a teacher myself … Continue reading →

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