tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76810592400330722842024-03-18T21:11:15.554-07:00Rob Cairns - PoetryI am a Melbourne based poet who writes Modern English haiku, senryu, tanka, haiga and free verse. I am constantly inspired by nature and my inner west industrial landscape. I have been published in a few online and offline journals-- in Australia and overseas. Enjoy my poetry. I have recently taken up the art of linocut printing on which I've been creating haiga from my haiku poetry.Rob Cairnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00207898800090366982noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7681059240033072284.post-15676820267957602582016-01-25T15:01:00.002-08:002016-01-25T15:01:38.363-08:00<br />
beach sand <br />
in tiny piles<br />
all over the floor<br />
is never a mess<br />
but a track back<br />
to the seaRob Cairnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00207898800090366982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7681059240033072284.post-71606573197284807852016-01-25T14:59:00.006-08:002016-01-25T14:59:59.701-08:00South Gippslandtoday South Gippsland<br />
flowering gums<br />
orange and red<br />
roadside beacons<br />
like our city neon signsRob Cairnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00207898800090366982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7681059240033072284.post-27603396458724344432016-01-16T04:22:00.000-08:002016-01-16T04:22:16.662-08:00The Pink Flamingo and the Pelicantonight sitting by the caravan park pool<br />
with the blow up pink flamingo--<br />
a pack of young boys<br />
clamber in the pool<br />
to tip each other over--<br />
the plastic grass is soaked in chlorine<br />
and sun burnt bodies are dressed<br />
in fringed spangled swimwear--<br />
a pet ostrich pecks<br />
at fake grass insects--<br />
I swim myself back to the lake<br />
last night where spoonbills sifted mud<br />
and we swam in the soft rippled quiet<br />
watching a pelican carry the sun downRob Cairnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00207898800090366982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7681059240033072284.post-61706848513153446132016-01-16T04:08:00.004-08:002016-01-16T04:08:30.775-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Rob Cairnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00207898800090366982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7681059240033072284.post-91316164793070058692016-01-16T03:50:00.001-08:002016-01-16T03:50:07.732-08:00<br />
tonight--<br />
a puddle of moon<br />
on dry grassRob Cairnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00207898800090366982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7681059240033072284.post-40715372197520558292016-01-16T03:47:00.002-08:002016-01-16T03:47:51.607-08:00swimming through<br />
constellations--<br />
how tiny our seasRob Cairnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00207898800090366982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7681059240033072284.post-30159114668352523702016-01-16T03:46:00.002-08:002016-01-16T03:46:19.005-08:00out on the lake<br />
black swans glide<br />
on a smooth, silver course<br />
and industry carves<br />
the horizonRob Cairnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00207898800090366982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7681059240033072284.post-78423320836254168892016-01-16T03:44:00.001-08:002016-01-16T03:44:21.230-08:00riding our bikes<br />
alongside factories<br />
we watch the sun set<br />
on rows<br />
of broken windowsRob Cairnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00207898800090366982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7681059240033072284.post-42729694956053537242014-04-25T02:36:00.000-07:002014-04-25T02:46:16.090-07:00On top of Possum Cave<br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<br /><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><strong>On top of Possum
Cave</strong></u></i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sound of mop
squeezing</i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Swishing across
linoleum floor</i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fast legs escape
outside into summer </i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Peppered by
nasturtiums</i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Basking in morning
sun on </i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rough cement whilst</i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Peering into a dark
space</i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Waiting for blue
tongued lizard to emerge-</i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Learning patience
and stillness </i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I leap to swing on
the hills hoist</i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Looking skyward at
dizzy clouds</i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Drop with a thud to
roll</i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">On summer buffalo to
gaze at slow motion clouds</i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Through mosaicked
sky of eucalypt</i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I traverse my worn
track</i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Across the yellowed
back paddock </i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Down the sprawling
aniseed and box thorn</i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">River valley to
Possum Cave</i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Clustered granitic
boulders</i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">My dreaming rock
ledge of escape</i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Soaring skyward</i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">With the pair of white
kites</i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">And the skeletons
of dead trees</i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Interlocking and
twisting upwards.</i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">In company of the
Great Egret</i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I slow my thoughts </i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">And breathe easy-
far away</i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">From the smell of
polished</i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Linoleum and order</i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">My small shadow is
adult on the rock face</i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tiny tanned arms
wrapped <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>around my knees </i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I slowly unfurl</i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">To sprawl across
the rock</i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lizard child-</i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tightness is
released</i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">As I breathe in the
sky.</i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">This place is where
</i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I </i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">come to ask
all the questions</span></i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Of the sky, river, trees and birds</span></i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">For they have always known the answers</span></i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">To the hard questions</span></i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The answers drift up the Valley</span></i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In the seeds from golden grasses-</span></i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I am home</span></i></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<em><span style="color: black;">Rob 2014</span></em></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></i></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span><br /></span><br /></div>
Rob Cairnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00207898800090366982noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7681059240033072284.post-10988998888429275132013-08-04T00:19:00.001-07:002016-04-06T16:52:40.571-07:00For Andrea<br /><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"></span> </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">In memory of my dear Cousin Andrea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I remember –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Childhood parties at your place,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Your mum’s lemon filled fairy cakes,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Swishing our patterned skirts to Dancing Queen,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Nana’s glamorous dress ups from her ornate glory box- full of fun,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Fox fur hiding in the darkness of Nana’s cupboard- red beady eyes peering out at us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Hopscotch, barbie dolls and elastics in the street- skipping ropes and hoola hoops.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Your smile was the sun-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Now it swirls in the Winter winds- melting morning frost-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Thawing hearts of city stone statues-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Your smile tells huddled birds-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Stories of laughter and song in your heart-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Childhood dreams-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Adult aspirations-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Your smile left this Earth too early,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">But makes Winter snowdrops sing-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">You see you were just too smart for this world,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Clever and funny and beautiful,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Ocean eyes- contagious laugh,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Quirky and most of all brave.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Fighting a courageous battle in a world you didn’t want to leave.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Cousins- <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">My Dad – your Mum- brother and sister-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Shared history, blood,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Lives entwined- childhood dreaming,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Your smile- it fills bare Winter trees with hope of new buds in Spring,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Your smile- spirals and lifts towards the sun-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Illuminates the stars-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I always thought you shined-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Glitter in your veins</span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<o:p><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></o:p></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Goodbye Andrea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<o:p><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></o:p></div>
Rob Cairnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00207898800090366982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7681059240033072284.post-29574731474351901302012-12-30T20:25:00.002-08:002012-12-30T20:25:43.164-08:00Goodbye 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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flowered for the first time,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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back for a while,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Magpies
packed up and left.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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moved in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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black cockatoos flew over West Footscray.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Marbled geckos
patterned our red brick driveway,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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viewed all over Victoria,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Moon and
Stars watched from the fly wire windows of our campervan,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sunsets were watched every night on West Footscray walks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Rode over
many hills from Lilydale to Warburton,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">For many kms
on wondrous adventure with son.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Formed a
close bond and shared the love of a new dog in my life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Doubted
myself and my talents and learnt not to do this anymore.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Observed
spiders spin webs,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Ladybirds
explore marigolds,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Dragonflies
glisten and hover above water,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Reeds dance
in the wind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Shared sense
of wonder of nature with children.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Swam in the
ocean alone,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Went fishing
with a friend,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Walked for
MS,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Rode for
Smith Family,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Over
Westgate bridge twice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Watched the
moon,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The moon
watched me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Experienced
sadness,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Shared
sadness and hard times with friends<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Felt fear
which froze me,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Said goodbye
to my job at the Royal Botanic Gardens and cried a river of tears.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Farewelled
friends,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Made new
friends,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Cared for
Quolls,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Watched
sunset on top of boulders at Mt Rothwell,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Observed
deep space,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Fell in love
with Pleiades all over again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Taught
teenagers for the first time,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">They taught
me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">As a team
helped the planet,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Shared the wonders
of the world,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Shared love
and support of loved ones,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Took up
challenges,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Shared my
writing on social media,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Let my heart
ache,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Experienced
disappointment,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Watched my
family grow and love life,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Laying on
the grass at Warburton watching the moon and stars with my 8 year old son,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Knowing that
moment was one of the best in 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">At the end
of our cycling journey – just us- watching the universe- in shared wonder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Goodbye 2012<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">West Footscray- Watson’s Wool store,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sunshine Rd,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Goldsborough, Mort and Co LTD neighbours.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Drawn to these haunting, vast buildings on my West
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Coral’s dad worked at Watson’s in the 60s-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">As a child she loved the fish pond out front –koi
swimming under date palms-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Xmas family picnics-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">One year Coral wore her tartan skirt and powder blue cashmere
cardigan – which was torn climbing fences- hence was a memorable Xmas picnic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Walking past the wool store I watch pigeons roosting up
high on the stained rooves,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I wonder of their views over the West Footscray “Hansen
for Houses” 40s estate.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Who is intriguing them today?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Randomly broken window panes of the wool stores are
openings for my curiosity,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Child inside me yearns to climb through and explore
these vast buildings,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">For clues of the times Coral’s dad worked there.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Like the stencilled signs on the brick walls out front,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Faded but still there-<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Tattoos of time.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Imagine the gardens restored to their original state,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I see my reflection in the garden pond,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Up the path and knocking on the bulging burgundy doors,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A VIP visitor from one of Hansen’s houses,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Tea and scones with the manager and a complimentary bale
of wool.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Some buildings still used to store wool- love the bales
lined up outside,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The smell of wool wafting through broken panes,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Intriguing architecture,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In an exquisite Industrial Landscape.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Rob 2012<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Rob Cairnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00207898800090366982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7681059240033072284.post-624896132027674952012-12-24T03:26:00.001-08:002012-12-24T03:26:42.056-08:00TED'S STOCKING<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><u>Ted's Stocking</u></strong></span><br />
<strong><u><span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span></u></strong><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Ted is eight year's old- the same as you,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">This year he has a sequinned, spangled stocking,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Hanging from the knob of the white chest of drawers that were my Nan's,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Hanging parallel to your silky red stocking- Ted is as excited as you-it's Christmas Eve.</span><br />
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I am perplexed- what will Ted receive from Santa?<br />
Maybe a new ribbon like the one he wore to hospital to first meet you ?<br />
In Aunty Karen's outstretched arms-<br />
It was love at first sight-<br />
Ted's glistening eyes filled with love when he saw you,<br />
Curled in a squished ball of soft blankets - he dreamed of the day you would hug him gently and share dreams.<br />
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I know -maybe some honey - Ted's favourite food in a silver thimble to drink,<br />
Or a badge of bravery-<br />
For Ted has shared many more first times than us.<br />
He's shared your surgery just last week,<br />
Snuggled you tight as you drifted into slumber.<br />
He whispered stories of shared adventures to soothe your fear away.<br />
Ted's travelled to Ballarat on your first scout camp,<br />
He calmed you to sleep and blocked his ears in a room of noisy boys.<br />
Ted's climbed trees and sped down pulley systems,<br />
He's been on bike rides in pannier bags,<br />
Head poking out to watch the views of rolling hills and vineyards to Warburton.<br />
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Ted's gone missing many times,<br />
Discovered in the depths of couch cushions,<br />
Under the bed,<br />
Alone and frightened - brave Ted,<br />
Been stitched unevenly and operated on-<br />
Re- stuffed unrecognisably,<br />
And lovingly squashed back to Ted with your familiar cuddles.<br />
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Ted's shared your sadness and happiness,<br />
His fur soaked with your tears,<br />
Even pegged on the line by his ears.<br />
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Ted's proud of your new cub badges for bike riding and first aide,<br />
I know now what Ted will get in his stocking!!!!<br />
A badge of your love - a fabric love heart- of silver and sequins,<br />
The always unconditonal love of the life's journey of a Teddy Bear !!!!<br />
Ted .<br />
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Robbie Dec 24th 2012<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">West Footscray Moon</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My West Footscray moon gazes down at me,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Through mazes of wires and lights of Tottenham railyards.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It sees through my walking heart,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Soft ,melted, exposed,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">But wrapt in strong corrugation -protected.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Only the moon sees the wild beating,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">A heart which yearns,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">A yearning -walking heart in West Footscray.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Pounding past the barbed wire fences,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Adorned with Angels made from white torn plastic,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Dancing freely- though trapped.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The moon follows the path of my heart.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">My heart it yearns for the wilderness,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Beyond the railway yards-</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Of adventures in lands only the moon has seen.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">To other galaxies and nebulas-</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I wait for my sliver winged horse to take me.....</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">My West Footscray heart yearns,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">While the moon shares my dreams.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Rob 2012</span><br />
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<br />Rob Cairnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00207898800090366982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7681059240033072284.post-55047137026396244642012-11-30T20:19:00.000-08:002012-11-30T20:19:03.156-08:00Neighborhood Heartache
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<u><span style="font-family: Calibri;">West Footscray Heart Broken<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dave’s had a bottle smashed on the back of his neck,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Asked the neighbours to keep the music down,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">His reply was violence,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Last time saw Dave was at my front door,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">He had a bunch of purple Easter daisy from his garden,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The size of our lounge room- vivid purple turned my
heart yellow,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dave’s been away travelling – only just got back,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Check if he’s okay – give him our number, ring day or
night-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The night it unfolded- I came home to four police cars
lining our street,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The violence also insidiously spread to the bottle
shop, slashed face, blood smeared down Dave’s duco of his white car-ugly red
graffiti,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I went to the pool and I swam and swam- submerging my
mind into the numbness of the rhythm, my arms pulling through the water hard
and fast- <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The quietness underneath the water blocked the screaming,
the yelling, the sirens, the confusion, the sadness in my heart,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">My West Footscray heart is breaking,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Why do some people see the world through violent eyes? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Gentle eyes can never comprehend this-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dave rents a 40s weatherboard same as ours- worn with
paint shedding hundreds of stories into the night sky,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Stories of other lands and dreams,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">His house is a jungle of indoor plants and exotic pieces from
far away places,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Out back there’s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a
field of flowers Dave’s grown and a paddock of chooks-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A breathtaking <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>oasis of colour against the rusted corrugated industrial skyline,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dave’s field of flowers is so beautiful – I am moved to
tears,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">My West Footscray is a community so diverse and rich in
culture ,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The woolshed and the corrugated iron fences, the
railway goods yards,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The prickly pears and the vintage rose gardens, the
industry, the trucks,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The diversity of families – a community of sharing, not
violence,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">…………and Dave’s flowers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Rob 2012<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rob Cairnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00207898800090366982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7681059240033072284.post-14806551552473901722012-09-23T01:13:00.002-07:002012-09-23T01:13:37.938-07:00What is love ?
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What is Love?<o:p></o:p></span></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">A small
white feather drifts towards me-<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Hand reaches
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Softness
caresses my skin-<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I lean and
gently blow the feather<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Into the
blue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I watch -caught
in its slow motion,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Gentle
traveller<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Fragile
beauty.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Love simply
is-<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">A feather.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Drifting in
and out<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Of a caress,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">A moment,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">And the
tenderness of its travel-<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Its
sensitive landing-<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">To touch a
heart.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The mystery
of its destination<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Is a
reflection of the souls yearnings-<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It glides,
spins, spirals down,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">But is
uplifted by the breeze-<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">As the heart
is in love.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Love –<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Simply is<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">A feather.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Robyn
</span>Rob Cairnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00207898800090366982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7681059240033072284.post-17593074404347878232012-09-23T01:11:00.001-07:002012-09-23T01:12:12.484-07:00Autumn<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Autumn<o:p></o:p></span></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Scribbled in
my diary we are to meet up second day of Autumn,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Strictly
business-<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I sit on grass opposite the Fitzroy library
waiting for your warm smile,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Autumn
conversation as we walk Fitzroy streets is as colourful as the changing leaves,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Cumbungi
harvesting as a child,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">All things
made of sugar and flour,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Russian
sunflowers behind wire fences,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Joy behind
ugliness,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Graffiti
artists and marzipan,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Beauty of
industrial buildings,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Time
management and pork panini rolls and good company.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Happiness in
my autumn soul,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Second day
Autumn<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Rob 2012<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
Rob Cairnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00207898800090366982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7681059240033072284.post-42491552212696614412012-09-11T02:45:00.000-07:002012-09-11T03:20:56.499-07:00Nan<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">53 Wordsworth st- Nan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN-US">Rose bordered path,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Leads steeply up towards cream
weatherboard,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Californian bungalow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Blue and purple hydrangeas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In full bloom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Nan leans over the balcony,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Beckons us in with her smile.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">We are young children.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Overnight bags unpacked,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Out back in mum’s old bedroom,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">With the mirror on the wall,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Which made my eyes very green.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Cards at the kitchen table,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Crib, 500, donkey and Nan’s favorite
sevens.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Nan peels apple skin into a perfect monkey’s
tail.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Macaroni pudding, stewed fruit and custard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Daytime games of imagination-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Horses with brooms,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Their stables under the house,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Trotting up and down the path,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Galloping across the grass.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Pouring water down the gully trap,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Nan’s hair has been rinsed “True steel”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Sitting at the kitchen table,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">There’s neighborhood gossip,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">And talk of bowls games and upcoming
events.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Getting ready for bed, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Hitchcock’s “To Catch a Thief” in the
evening.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Columbine toffees to greedily unravel and
devour,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">The toffee sticking hard to our teeth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Nan’s teeth in a plastic cup on the
bathroom sink,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Pink bathroom smells of tea rose powder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Open and shut the bathroom mirror cupboard,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Cyclax” lipsticks and many Cyclax be<st1:personname w:st="on">au</st1:personname>ty products,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Dear great Aunty Molly was their
accountant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Yellow pottery vase I made for Nan,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Fake violets bunched inside,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Resting on Nan’s polished side table.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">So proud how Nan displayed my hand made
gift.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Nan tucks us in tight,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Wrapped in her leopard print dressing gown,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Hair net pinned down carefully,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Large feet encased in burgundy velvet
slippers with bows,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">We kiss and hug her goodnight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN-US">Twenty something-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">I take my bags inside 53,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Living on my own now, like Nan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">In the evening we talk at length,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Of boys who broke my heart,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">We watch telly together.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Nan remembers days past-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">We chat from bedroom to bedroom,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Call out goodnight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">One wall separates Grandmother and grand d<st1:personname w:st="on">au</st1:personname>ghter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">So much love my Nan has given me,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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Rob 2009</div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
Rob Cairnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00207898800090366982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7681059240033072284.post-28217395989644035612012-09-11T02:42:00.001-07:002012-09-11T02:42:10.989-07:00Swim
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<u><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Swim<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Submerging my heavily pregnant body in the warmth of the
pool,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Trademark<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>pink <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>goggles enclosing<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>green eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Weightless I move slowly through the water,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Taking my baby for a swim – rocking side to side,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The silence under the water is sublime,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The silence lulls me into a multitude of future dreams,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">How I will love you when you are born,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The things we will do together,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Oblivious of the vast changes in my life’s landscape ahead.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The end of each lap – rub my stomach in circular motions,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">You have gone to sleep.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Heave myself from the pool- proud of my huge rounded “baby”
tummy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I know you will love water just like me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Rob 2011<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
Rob Cairnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00207898800090366982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7681059240033072284.post-556617837642809222012-09-11T02:40:00.001-07:002012-09-11T02:40:06.965-07:00Bougainvillea Dreaming
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Blue Highway"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Bougainvillea Dreaming<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Blue Highway"; font-size: 12pt;">Canopy
of purple petals cascade down my hair,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Blue Highway"; font-size: 12pt;">Toss
my hair and bougainvillea confetti,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Blue Highway"; font-size: 12pt;">Scatters
to grass beneath me,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Blue Highway"; font-size: 12pt;">I
lie alone on a bed of soft purple,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Blue Highway"; font-size: 12pt;">Look
up at the blue sky,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Blue Highway"; font-size: 12pt;">Through
a mass of purple vines,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Blue Highway"; font-size: 12pt;">I
am in a dream far away from reality,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Blue Highway"; font-size: 12pt;">Floating
on purple clouds of sunshine,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Blue Highway"; font-size: 12pt;">What
is my truth ?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Blue Highway"; font-size: 12pt;">My
truth is oneness,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Blue Highway"; font-size: 12pt;">Aloneness
but completeness,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Blue Highway"; font-size: 12pt;">My
truth is simple,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Blue Highway"; font-size: 12pt;">Self
acceptance,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Blue Highway"; font-size: 12pt;">Abundance
of love to give and more,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Blue Highway"; font-size: 12pt;">Intangible
dreams of purple milkshakes with purple syrup, purple ice-cream and purple
cheesecake,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Blue Highway"; font-size: 12pt;">My
Bougainvillea dreams.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Blue Highway"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Blue Highway"; font-size: 12pt;">Robyn
2011<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Rob Cairnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00207898800090366982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7681059240033072284.post-71839870665890137322012-04-30T02:16:00.002-07:002012-04-30T02:16:44.496-07:00When I was 7<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: Calibri;">When I was 7</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I used coloured rods for maths at school,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Loved the pink ones- think they were worth 2 or was it 5 ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mrs Larkins screamed all day,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Was a huge well- fed dragon,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mouth red from blowing fire at us all day-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Often wondered if she had taken a student back to her cave to eat,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">There always seemed to be someone missing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Played cubbies in the cypress pines-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Drank warm milk delivered to school.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Our brown Austin Tasman always broke down on the way to school,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Often late toclass.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Played “lost in space” in the school yard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I was regretfully always Penny but wanted to be Judy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">When I was 7 it was 1975-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We had terry towelling car seat covers, shorts and chenille bed spreads.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We never wore seat bealts-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Played at Kelly and Kirk’s after school-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">They had a modern 70s house overlooking the river.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Kelly was killed in a car accident at 21- her and five friends killed instantly-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">She was a backseat passenger.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Kelly’s smile was the sun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Kirk’s death notice was Billy Joel’s “Only the good die young”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Kirk was killed in a superbike accident at 35-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">He was a famous rider.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Kelly and Kirk’s parents lost their smiles forever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In 1975- Kirk loved Evel Knivel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">When I was 7 my brother David and I would walk to the milk bar for mixed lollies,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">50 lollies for 20cents,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We played up at Shaw’s dairy farm in amongst the boxthorns</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We never got home till sunset</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">When I was 7.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">What was your life like at 7 ????</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Robbie</span></div>Rob Cairnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00207898800090366982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7681059240033072284.post-50360241370524302042012-04-29T05:14:00.000-07:002012-04-29T05:14:27.174-07:00Barry<u>Ode to Barry</u><br />
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Barry is our neighbor,<br />
Seventy something,<br />
Stunning voice Sunday night backyard and a beer,<br />
Belts out Elvis,<br />
We love hearing him sing.<br />
Barry is a gardener,<br />
Shares his vegies,<br />
Pumpkin on the doorstop Sunday morning,<br />
Barry mows the elderly neighbor's grass,<br />
He brings their bins in,<br />
His garden is awash with shining baubles- Xmas,<br />
Barry one of the kindess human beings I've met.<br />
One night Barry was bashed in his front porch by a "supposed" friend.<br />
I took him down the station to sort it out,<br />
Society can be cruel.<br />
Barry is an animal lover - feeds the magpies and the strays,<br />
He's a beautiful cook and an artist,<br />
Barry's shifting house,<br />
When he told me my heart secretly broke,<br />
Will miss him like you wont believe,<br />
Barry's a story- teller,<br />
A gem in our industrial suburb,<br />
A connector a communicator a carer,<br />
No digital space in Barry's world,<br />
Just an oasis of kindness for others,<br />
And a beautiful singing voice we will miss forever.<br />
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Do you know your neighbors well ? We have some treasures- characters and real caring people- Sometimes in this busy world we forget to check in on our neighbors- maybe the isloated new mums, or families living far away from home or our elderly friends. Just dropping in for a cuppa like the "old" days - makes a world of difference to their day.<br />
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RobRob Cairnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00207898800090366982noreply@blogger.com0