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Mountain Temple, Bali
Mountain Temple, Bali Above the caldera the temple seems to have sprung direct from the mountain's groaning skull - no way to tell, in dripping cloud...
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- 901 reads
Funeral in Fiji
A Funeral in Fiji It is a stifling day. We swelter in packed pews in the echoing church, until a cold rain hammers on the iron roof, and a draft...
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- 1316 reads
Artists
Artists The tools of their art are spread on the ground: the ochres, the reeds chewed to a brushpoint, the grinding stones - only the glue they use...
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- 1037 reads
D: Wallaby and Dogs
Wallaby And Dogs I was moving water-smooth stones to shape a dam when the despairing wallaby crashed by our noses into the water, the half-Alsatian...
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- 1039 reads
Wild Dogs
Wild Dogs Because I have heard the wild dogs in the night, up there on the Daly in the empty North, these days I itch with a vague dissatisfaction:...
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The Cuvu Villagers take Communion
The Cuvu Villagers Take Communion for David Makutu Vosailagi Five minutes into the Fijian sermon and my mind wanders: I find myself looking at the...
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- 906 reads
Rain at Gunn Point
Rain at Gunn Point It is raining at Gunn Point: from Arnhem Land the monsoon clouds have come wallowing to the west - and now they hang weeping on...
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- 863 reads
Children's Python
Children's Python She is no friend of mine, but we have reached a modus vivendi: : she will not startle me again at night when I am outside in the...
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- 1006 reads
Whoops!
I've gone and put some Arsenic On my steak and kidney pie And accidentally swallowed it So now I'm going to die. I thought that it was Parmesan I...
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- 1004 reads
JACK - PRETTY JACK
ANOTHER OLD FAIRY-TALE UPDATED
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- 1179 reads
Service
I have come to this place to be changed To break up the pieces and be rearranged I have come to this place to be healed To remove the fa?ade and be...
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- 757 reads
Outside
I searched for a church that would give me some warmth and love in my time of need But all that I got was a lot of suggestions on verses and books I...
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- 645 reads
Narrow
I am an Evangelical A vicar, bald and spherical I only get hysterical When others aren't like me. They say I'm fundamental But it's just coincidental...
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- 661 reads
Addict
Descend these darkened steps once more Down to the void within my heart Where life and light could never shine Lest my whole world be wrenched apart...
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- 787 reads
Secret of love
When you finally accept All your perceived limitation-- That's when you will also accept The pure love of another. Practice seeing yourself without...
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- 618 reads
Because they beg and bore,
cadge from the text of your
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- 788 reads
Abandon these lines impending
before they lead into a never-ending;
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- 729 reads
Effigy of Death
An ancient Inca effigy hold terrifying and mystical powers.
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- 1253 reads
School days
Uniformed collective pile from teethed gates Swirls of cigarette smoke entwine Above illegal heads Kisses are exchanged for handholding And promise...
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- 910 reads