Historic Sydney

This is my first post in a while. I haven’t been feeling well and to make things worse I’ve been having computer problems as well. I can barely use my computer at the moment; it makes a constant grinding noise and just crashes without warning. I even lost some of my work yesterday when it [...]

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 [...]