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Australian Poetry - Suburbia - Video Reflections on Bruce Dawe - 1 - "homo suburbiensis"

Suburbia! A gift or a curse? In 2006, Australian Bruce Dawe released "Sometimes Gladness", a collection of poems connecting universal, ordinary man with the poetry of the soul. I felt moved to create a video of his poem, interpretting the images and the illusions.

0 comments    arts poetry inspiration
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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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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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Australian Poetry - Oddities: A Dial-Up Swan Song

Remember the days when dial-up was young And the world basked in the new internet sun The old raucous schoolyard Became a room Of marble faces And cold screens And communication was as close As 3 hour linking...

19 comments    internet poetry communication
Mount Martha by Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia63

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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Australian Poetry: Relationships and Connections - Video Reflections on Bruce Dawe - 2 - "Distances"

Modern Australian poet Bruce Dawe is conscious that humanity struggles to find a sense of belonging and identity in 20th to 21st century society. I felt moved to create a video of his insights and a poem of my own. There is space But no bridge There is a voice But no one hears...

6 comments    arts poetry inspiration
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Australian Poetry - Stop the Clock! Thief at Large!

If time is man's desperate attempt to harness space and dimension into some decipherable, controlled unit of measurement, does that mean taking time for self could be theft, indeed a crime? Is time a parkland with pockets signed "No Trespassing"?

1 comment    arts poetry time
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Australian Poetry: Remembering to see with Wings - "The seagull who flies high lives high"

Take the breath Of the wings of morning Lift your eyes To the canyons Of the skies And fly!

11 comments    poetry philosophy spiritual
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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...

8 comments    poetry poem dreams
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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
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