Act of God
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Across this hopscotch land
strange days stretch out to sea,
where ancient forests stood,
now ails a lone pine tree,
spared from an Act of God,
not so children as they flee -
they are turned to ghosts
by what god, pray tell me?
Taking a Break
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
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
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
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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
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
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
Golf courses – some of the most beautiful and peaceful places on earth
(unless you have a bad game, of course 
)
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Platitude Pyre
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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
A few from out and about on Sydney Harbour
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The Bird
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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
Meld
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Sultry African nights,
we’d drink Dutch,
play Chinese,
smoke American,
talk Japanese,
(the odd bit of French thrown in)
Brightly hungover days,
we’d work,
with throwback English stoicism
Have Fun
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Happy Festive Season, Fellow Bloggers
Best wishes for 2012
Hope to see you there, safe and sound
xxxx
For some delightful Christmas-flavoured posts
and to see the most wonderful collection of ornamental Santas,
take a look at Nancy’s December posts
If you don’t find your comment here…
My virus checker has detected a virus in a number of comments posted in the last few days including those from Bloggers that have been visiting this site for a long time. Not sure how the virus has made it through WordPress. Anyhow, if you don’t find your comment here, it’s because your comment links are infected with a virus and, thus, I have been forced to delete your comment. I have reported the issue to WordPress.
thx
bb
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Update
WordPress have contacted me with the following response:
“We have contacted AVG about this and it was definitely a false-positive on their end.
Users will need to update following this guide to remove the warning:
So, it seems, it’s a case of an over-zealous virus-checker 
Thanks for being on the ball, WordPress 
and apologies to the Bloggers whose comments I deleted
Weekly Photo Challenge: Self-Portrait
They say
we know
who we are
in adulthood -
sister,
not brother,
wife,
not mother -
a prosaic mosaic,
fragments of a self
but don’t ask me
to complete the picture -
time has lost
more than a few pieces
Weekly Photo Challenge: Celebration
21 years married today -
cause for celebration,
wouldn’t you say?
xxx
Because it’s my wedding anniversary today, I’m celebrating my other half by posting some photos he took
on another day of celebration – NYE 2009
Sydney – NYE 2009
Sydney - NYE 2009
Sydney - NYE 2009
Thanks
Thanks very much to the following Bloggers
for expressing their appreciation with these honours -
Dadirridreaming (don’t you love that name?!) for the Versatile Blogger Award
Jake, for the Candle Lighter Award
To Amira for the Versatile Blogger Award
To Jo for the Versatile Blogger Award
To Edward for the Liebster Award
To Tilly for the CoWApunhere
To Gabrielle for guest-blogging me
To aRVee for the Versatile Blogger Award
To Lazywednesdays for the Versatile Blogger Award
To Gabrielle for the Versatile Blogger Award
The Cupboard Under the Stairs
A place for everything,
for everything, a place,
but under the stairs,
it’s a mind-trash space -
memories secreted in dark, spidered nooks,
neurons rutted like well-thumbed books,
moody film-noir dendritic ends,
space-junk synapses, axonic strands,
dust-choked engrams, dreams, nightmares -
time to springclean under the stairs.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Waiting
“The next
train due to depart
platform 3
goes to
Kepler-22b,
first stop – Gliese 581 g,
then all stations to Kepler-22b.”
*** And thanks to Jo Bryant for this award ***
When it comes to rules, I’m a bit like you, Jo, but I’ll join you for some pirate tea
