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I'm Not There64

Australian Poetry: Heath Ledger - Zero Joker + "I'm Not There" - A tribute - 23.01.08

"People always feel compelled to sum you up, to presume that they have you and can describe you. That's fine. But there are many stories inside of me and a lot I want to achieve outside of one flat note."

31 comments    poetry australia tribute
Mount Martha by Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia65

Australian Poetry: A House - Private property sailing the skies?

"Only US and Canadian cities featured in the top 50 affordable cities, including Dallas and Kansas in the US and Quebec in Canada...The survey found the top five least affordable cities in the world included four Californian cities led by Los Angeles..." > Poetic spasm generated!

3 comments    home dreams house affordability
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Fractured Memories of a Child Soldier

Africa can be a jungle Of dominoes Numbered with wars And shifting sands~~Such dominoes In the hands of a child Can only be DynamiteBut a child One who God hears An Ishmael Blasting murder With murder Must be...

13 comments    children war memory
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Australia: Some home-grown kookaburra tales

My dearest partner loves his birds, particularly the feathered, laughing kind. Not long after he first arrived in Australia, he formed an amazing friendship with a kookaburra he called Scruff.

13 comments    funny australia stories
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Poetry is the Best Real Estate on the Market

Poetry is a touch of heat and frost. Poetry is the Wire Lane on Internet Highways. Poetry is the best take away on the market. Poetry basks in designer labels. Poetry condones spending sprees. Snack food available for nibblers.

11 comments    arts funny what is poetry
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Australian Poetry: A Tune-Up - Curse or Blessing?

There is nothing worse than waiting for some undefined time to pass...Waiting for the appointed tuning of...the car...It could be a curse...But then again...

11 comments    life relationships poetry
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Australia Day - 26th January, 2008 - Formalities fringed with family fun

Australia Day is a time to celebrate the birth of a nation - the largest island and the smallest continent. It is a time to celebrate beginnings, historically; a time to demonstrate unity. But how Australians go about doing that can be quite intriguing, even amusing! This hub gives examples of the usual and some rather odd activities in store for 2008's Australia Day!

6 comments    fun australia public holiday
Principality of Wy79

Funny, Weird and Wacky "kingdoms" in Australia

So you thought a huge bench in the middle of Australia's outback was pretty weird. But wait! There's more! Some unique (a generic term including those verging on "beyond crazy") individuals in Australia live in (and rule) their own "unsung"? worlds - many legally and literally.

26 comments    funny australia odd facts
An ancient reptile, such as this one, (connected with the dragon family) could be the very key, like the amphibians, to the survival of humanity! It can survive up to 20 years in captivity!69

Australia - Overview of Australia + Australians - A glimpse, a taste, a little music with the wine and the first memory

Once, Australia was a little like a lost child, pushed into the traffic of distant lands and the whims of waters and sea breezes. But Australia now is building a memory. Here is the first wave of that memory, a little foamy, a little salty, but still a wave coming in to shore.

8 comments    music poetry animals
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Australian Poetry: Paper Dreams

THEY Theorise Functionalise Symbolise Idealise Computerise thoughts to Psychedelic rhythms Syncopate visions Paper dreams THEY Pepper life's Rock and roll With a long white loneliness Salt life's blues With...

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