Standing on the muse’s dune, I want to hook the best first line ever. Don’t you long to say that about the first line you wrote to a short story or a poem? If not you might want to say that about the best line you delivered to someone you had a crush on andContinue reading “Quest for brilliant first lines and strong openings”
Driving City and keeping a challenge small
Image Credit: Greg Neate Creative Commons some rights reserved Those of you who follow this blog regularly will know that I have been a bit wary of driving in Brisbane. So much so that I just didn’t drive at all for our first few months here. You will know that it took me many yearsContinue reading “Driving City and keeping a challenge small”
Whistler
Originally posted on A Thousand Healing Haiku:
Whistler in the street shares his morning melody my day now smiles ? (c) June Perkins
This wheel doesn’t turn
Originally posted on Ripple Poetry :
Image Credit Creative Commons, some rights reserved Michael Scott This wheel doesn’t turn the way that it should it just has a soul of its own. Frustration is crawling under my skin wheeling all over my day. This wheel doesn’t turn the way that it should left is right right…
Art singing and dancing in the Streets
Art in the city, not shut away in galleries, but everywhere you look. It’s on power boxes, telegraph poles, railway station walls. climbs onto walls and alleyways. chalked, painted, sprayed, and poster papered. It’s murals with messages from Martin Luther King everytime I used to catch the bus in Marrickville I’d see his face withContinue reading “Art singing and dancing in the Streets”
