Two weeks ago the B.O.M site said it would
rain all day on the 19th June as a front from the North West would
arrive early then in the afternoon it would collide with a front from the
Southeast at the Gold Coast causing heavy rain and strong winds, wow they were
right!!! Joan Eoin Trish Joyce Mac Tom
John Banjo Ted all decided to play it safe and stay home. Manya went to Bali
and got a storm or two there and Roger went to Southern England and I bet it
trained there as well. One of my daughters lives near Newcastle in NSW (Best
State in Australia Blue Blue Blue and true) and its been raining non stop for
three days, floods and blackouts. Myself Bob David Lyn Peter Fred Marta Tracey
Kathy Judi and our newest poet joining for the first time today was Owen
ventured into the inclement weather shared our poems and scarped away at 14:30
to beat the heart of the storm and get home in time to watch the footy. The
optional theme and first line were well represented and shared in the group.
Bob recited his thoughts on what a beautiful world we live in by writing
and sharing a very descriptive poem about Gondwanaland and all its glorious
contents “My Portrait of Australia” including detailing all the flora fauna and
natural landscape deserts illuminated night sky. His second poem was titled
“Me Grandpa” a very informative poem about
his inspiringly brilliant genius ol Granddad that made a life out of perfecting
how to turn wine and beer into urine, such a great legacy to pass on to Bob.
His third poem was his saddened observation that the young kids of today lack
the imagination his childhood was filled with and how he believed in magic and
all its possibilities, now they just sit inside on an i-pad or i-phone and play
computer games or text a hundred words a minute to their ever expanding list of
strangers on FB the death of magic is not far away. He closed the day with a
lovely poem about a mother –in- law and her ability to catch six mud crabs at
one time.
David shared his thoughts on the beauty in the world by sharing his poem
about the beauty in the whole world and how we as a race need to care for our
lovely blue planet a lot better. His second poem was his poem that was written
along the legacy theme a few months back and was the about the stages we go
through in our life in increments of five years and describing what a learning
experience it is and how we eventually get our turn to pass on some of our
compiled knowledge to the next few generations.
Lyn also wrote about the beauty in our lucky country and how glorious
it is to be here and to experience all that life and nature offers from the
beautiful symphony of a perfect rainbow to the warm glow of full summer moon.
Her second poem was a memory provoking piece about the angel that has sat a top
her Christmas tree since 1970 and how every year when she unwraps her it brings
the love and joy flooding back in beautiful memories of Christmas past, her
legacy is to pass it on to her children so they in turn can feel the love and
share the memory of her existence warmth and love with generations to come.
Fred joined us again and did a great job reciting two poems he used to
read as a young lad; one was “The Pig” by Roald Dahl a very good poem on the
subject of irony. The second poem he recited was the Jack Moses piece “Nine
Miles from Gundagai” the one about that dog and the tucker Box.
Marta did a good job of reciting her ten line acrostic poem titled
“Queensland” detailing her love of the great state and the beauty within, from
the Q to the D!! Her second poem was a very witty funny poem about what David
would do with her ashes when she shuffle off this mortal coil, she wanted them
sprinkled in the sea but he reminded her that would add to the oceans pollution
problem and his solution was to have a ceremony at home and flush them down the
toilet which would most likely end up in the sea anyway. David’s pondering
from a warm bath on a cold rainy winter day.
Tracey
shared a poem she wrote inspired by the tale she
rad of a village in trouble in the 11th Century in England, a dark
poem about magic demons and a man trying to save his home. Her second poem
started with a quote from Oscar Wilde “A poet can survive anything but a
misprint”. She recited a poem she wrote
for a friend that had just been through a traumatic failed Internet based relationship
and it was a positive message of support form her to her friend.
Kathy recited her poem “The Demise of the Newspaper”, she reminded us of
all the alternate uses for newspaper in the days of our youth, wrapping fish n
chips, covering school books, lining the budgie cage, squares in the outhouse,
fire starters, packing inside shoes, paper Mache at school, kitty litter and
most importantly blankets for the unfortunate homeless members of our
communities, she closed with lines urging us to keep buying them so people like
Rupert keep printing them. Her second poem was to the metered structure of
“Clancy Of the Overflow” and was titled “Nancy on the Go”, written when she was
still working as a school teacher and her friend Nancy did a dramatic sea
change sold up bought a camper van and went bush, her action was so inspiring
that when Kathy was offered a redundancy package she followed Nancy’s lead and
did like wise.
Judi
recited her poem about the beautiful world we live
in and she also highlighted all the beauty to find in Australia and reminding
us of the importance of family friends and love, ignore negative people and
avoid conflict when you can. Her second poem titled “I’d Like to Leave a
Legacy” a nice poem about remembering all the good in our lives and that when
she passes that she will always look down on her family and loved ones and she
hopes that they will remember fondly all the joy and love she has given and
shred in her life and will be inspired to follow in her footsteps.
Owen
recently moved up from Sydney and he saw our site
on the WWW and decided to join us, he was brave enough to stand at the mic on
his first visit and showed us all that he is very proficient and apt at writing
poetry, sharing two lovely poems. His first poem was titled “Teach” and was
inspired by feeling a little annoyed at others always trying to tell people
what to do and to do things there way when they are unqualified to make such
requests or demands on others, avoid people that can not listen to others, teach
yourself to learn the better part of man, be thankful for knowing what you can
live without, remind yourself to cherish and to love. His second poem was equally as well received
and was titled “Mortality” containing observations such as the certainty of
death when a leaf falls to the ground, the struggle when your ship is moored at
sea, the finality of a closing window, the emptiness in an unfilled easel and
the sadness of a spider that has no web.
Thank you to those that replied to my over
use of emails and apologies for the lateness of some of the delivery, I forget sometimes
that not everyone is a shift worker and most people actually get to sleep at nighttime.
Thank you also to those that braved the weather and were able to come along and
share some really tasty Cadbury chocolate wafers from Marta that were
manufactured in the Czech republic and then share poetry that was produced
right here on the Gold Coast. Looking forward to next month and hoping for a
sunny winter day. Bye for now and thank you all from Mr. and Mrs. Goudy.
