Quotes About Writing

Image: Vintage Fountain Pen ~ Kriss Szkurlatowski Before I get into this post, I mentioned in my last post that I’d write a review of the new Star Trek film after I saw it. I posted it earlier at  my other blog if anyone wants to check it out. If you haven’t seen the film [...]

One Week Later

Image: Fire in Upper Ferntree Gully ~ jsarcadia This is a follow up to the poem I posted earlier about Black Saturday and the bushfires in Victoria. I wrote the poem as a way of trying to move through the horror I felt in the days following the tragedy. There were so many images, so [...]

Hell on Earth

Image: Smoke Clouds ~ Jety Red sunrise burning Wind howling among the trees: Nature is unleashed The beauty of fire: An unstoppable fury Dancing on the wind Eucalypt forest: Ancient trees of memory Scorched by angry flames Smoke clouding the sky: Embers falling like raindrops In the darkest light Twenty years of life Reduced to [...]

We Shall Overcome

If there’s one good thing about having insomnia it’s that when something happens in the world, you get to see it at the same time as everyone else. Early yesterday morning, while most Australians were still fast asleep, I experienced a moment in history I’ll never forget. To see an African American in the White [...]