Flying Free – Part 2 – Beatrice Ross
Flying Free – Part 2 Beatrice Ross Winmalee, New South Wales Australia Continued from this morning … It was late evening. Creeping down the stairs, I jumped the last step….
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Flying Free – Part 1- Beatrice Ross
Flying Free – Part 1 Beatrice Ross Winmalee, New South Wales Australia I was fighting in the darkest heart of Vietnam, hunkering down low on my belly. I crawled through…
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Palestine – Terry Hopper
Palestine Terry Hopper Luton, Bedfordshire United Kingdom Another day in paradise, Nobody cares or glances twice, The children scream, as mothers weep, Shrapnel blasts and scars run deep, The…
Garrison Town – Part 2 – Ian Williams
Garrison Town – Part 2 Ian Williams Launceston, Tasmania Australia Continued from yesterday … The only blacks Iris had seen before the Yanks came to town were the Abos…
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Garrison Town – Part 1 – Ian Williams
Garrison Town – Part 1 Ian Williams Launceston, Tasmania Australia Scenes from the Home Front: Brisbane, October 1942 The Captain drove her home. She refused to go to a…
As It Is! – Virginia Gow
As It Is! Virginia Gow Blackheath, New South Wales Australia Two old ladies face the Wind. Side by side they stand, braced, on an empty lower deck. Hungry waves…
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Oh, The Stories Here – Marcalan McVicker
Oh, The Stories Here Marcalan McVicker Grants Pass, Oregon USA ‘Kids, you listen yo mamma now. You get on in here and wash fo suppa, c’mon now.’ And the…
Australian Haiku No. 4 – Tom Coley
Australian Haiku No. 4 Tom Coley Hazelbrook, New South Wales Australia (Some people call them limericks but Haiku sounds more sophisticated) The military industrial complex likes war It’s our way…
