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    • in Australia · Poem
    • — 27 Oct, 2015 at 9:00 am

    Candy – Virginia Gow

    Candy Virginia Gow Blackheath, New South Wales Australia   Hush! Look! Dawn’s blush filters through cotton candy clouds floating on distant horizon. Morning’s melody awakens to Spring’s frog-mating calls all…

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    • in Australia · Short Story
    • — 24 Oct, 2015 at 4:00 pm

    Night Muse – Judith Bruton

    Night Muse Judith Bruton Marino, South Australia Australia   And it was at that age … Poetry arrived in search of me. I don’t know, I don’t know where it…

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    • in Australia · Poem
    • — 23 Oct, 2015 at 9:00 am

    The Little Warrior – AA Anderson

    The Little Warrior AA Anderson Bathurst, New South Wales Australia   He walks with bowed head and dragging feet, Towards his parents, their eyes afraid to meet. He’d wanted so…

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    • in Australia · Poem
    • — 22 Oct, 2015 at 9:00 am

    About Change – Virginia Gow

    About Change Virginia Gow Blackheath, New South Wales Australia It’s all about perception. Look at this weather! Darling daffodils fry in heat. Winsome cherry blossoms wind-shattered on the gravel. Vegetable…

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    • in Poem · Spain
    • — 18 Oct, 2015 at 4:00 pm

    Instinct – gARThibiza

    Instinct gARThibiza San Augustine, Ibiza Spain   I was a pilot, one of the few The roll-call of duty, uniform blue The sky we would scramble, the life that we…

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    • in Australia · Editor's Pick · Picture It Competition · Short Story
    • — 17 Oct, 2015 at 4:00 pm

    Checkmate – Subroto Pant

    Checkmate Subroto Pant Sinnamon Park, Queensland Australia Picture It Competition Entry – Picture B   They visited me again this evening, asking the same questions, probing, peeping and prying. I…

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    • in Australia · Poem
    • — 7 Oct, 2015 at 9:00 am

    Spin Fatigue – Graham Sparks

    Spin Fatigue Graham Sparks Bathurst, New South Wales Australia   Australia, a ship without a mounting even for to place a rudder, where the word democracy is but an empty…

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    • — 25 Sep, 2015 at 9:00 am

    Realities Unknowable – Robyn Chaffey

    Realities Unknowable Robyn Chaffey Hazelbrook, New South Wales Australia   ‘Some things in life’ they say, ‘are harder’. They say too, ‘forgiveness is the way to go.’ It is true…

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