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Taking a Break

bluebee — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:08:15 +0000

Hi Fellow Bloggers

I am taking a break from blogging, studies etc to attend to a health issue, so won’t be posting here for a while.

I will be unsubscribed from everyone’s blogs during this time,

but will, nevertheless, pop in from time to time to read and comment on your blogs.

Best wishes

bb
xx

Weekly Photo Challenge: Down

bluebee — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 06:11:46 +0000

Watch out – endangered critters about

There’s something vaguely amusing about the first picture on this sign at Manly,
or perhaps there’s just something wrong with me for finding it so

Weekly Photo Challenge: Ready

bluebee — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:30:56 +0000

Ready to march

Anzac Day Marchers - Perth, Australia - 2005

I took this photo in Perth a few years ago – people were getting ready to march in the annual ANZAC Day Parade and the beautiful girl in the centre of the photo turned and gave me the biggest smile as I was snapping away. She really shone out and I just love that platform shoe peeking out from under her traditional Vietnamese costume!

Electricity

bluebee — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:59:43 +0000

Image via www.sxc.hu

It’s what we are:
shocked to life
at maximum voltage,
rewired by experience
in negative anxiety
and positive joy,
a slow-leaking energy,
static in defeat

In short,
we complete the circuit
and are gone -
subatomic particles
in an ancient storm

Weekly Photo Challenge: Hope

bluebee — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:01:39 +0000

Have had a foot injury since the end of November
so am in hope that I will be back in my golf shoes (actually, any normal shoes would be good)
and walking the golf course again in the not-too-distant future

Weekly Photo Challenge: Simple

bluebee — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:27:25 +0000

not moneyed lives but

the simple life of a bird

that I most envy

And for something completely different…

head over to Gabrielle Bryden’s Citrus Fiesta for a whole week’s worth of citrusy fizz and fun

Weekly Photo Challenge: Peaceful

bluebee — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 03:31:10 +0000

Golf courses – some of the most beautiful and peaceful places on earth

(unless you have a bad game, of course )

Click to view slideshow.

Platitude Pyre

bluebee — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:03:29 +0000

Image via www.sxc.hu

I try to keep warm
in the memory of you

But within embered years
a cold truth lies
beneath aphoristic ashes -
“Time heals all wounds”,
“This too shall pass” -

Over my dead body, perhaps.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Launch

bluebee — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 01:35:17 +0000

A few from out and about on Sydney Harbour

Click to view slideshow.

The Bird

bluebee — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:15:04 +0000

Image via www.sxc.hu

The bird
doesn’t mind

the indifference
of passing feet,
tossed flint-eyed scraps,
nest of a broadsheet

The bird
doesn’t mind
cold-hearted weather,
garbage-can dining,
piss-soaked shelter,
one-eyed sleep in the underpass,
the ubiquitous predator

The bird
doesn’t mind
existence
on the streets

He’s just a bird

Weekly Photo Challenge: Between

bluebee — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 22:25:22 +0000

Between

is the breath between
life and death
the laughter between
the light and hereafter
the whispers
between love and fractures

between
the glass reflections
float words consequential,
some, kind, reverential,
others, profane and mean,
drifting down, unseen,

settling on matchstick people
and their matchbox lives

breathing it in
like asbestos

Take care
with the words
between