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POET’S CORNER<br />
Submissions welcome<br />
editor@waterlinenews.com.au<br />
POETRY<br />
Emotional explosion.<br />
Anger, sentiment, frustration<br />
Too deeply felt to be confined<br />
Within the prison of prose.<br />
HAIKU<br />
Thoughts un miniature<br />
A haiku is untitles and<br />
unrhymed.<br />
A seasonal word or reference<br />
associated with nature should<br />
appear in the haiku, and contrasting images may be<br />
used. Usually the first line stands alone while the<br />
second and third connect to give an aspect of that<br />
image.<br />
Serenity<br />
BOOK REVIEW<br />
Art, Books &<br />
Sleeping volcanoes long repressed<br />
erupt in words.<br />
The listener’s ear less real<br />
Than the writer’s need.<br />
Dulcie Stone<br />
LISTEN<br />
Listen for the inaudible breath<br />
Of a dying flower,<br />
For the soundless pulse<br />
Of stagnant water.<br />
Listen for what is silent<br />
And yet is.<br />
Listen for the tears<br />
Of suffering millions,<br />
For the soundless screams<br />
Of murdered children.<br />
Listen for the inaudible<br />
death of compassion,<br />
for the soundless blows<br />
of ruthless evil.<br />
Listen for what is silent<br />
AND YET IS<br />
IN TIMELESS LAND<br />
Spectacular orange Olga Gorge<br />
stretches sheer to cloudless sky<br />
Alone in wilderness we gazed<br />
Powerful primeval pull<br />
Made us one with timeless land<br />
Dulcie Stone<br />
Years later, returning<br />
we walk among a tour group<br />
the guide intoning features<br />
We negotiate small dusky pink bridges<br />
now dotted along gorge<br />
Few follow us to track’s bushy end<br />
to viewing platform in matching pink<br />
where we expect McDonald’s beyond<br />
We return as hordes surge in<br />
a babble in a multitude of tongues<br />
St Kilda Beach transposed<br />
Outside eight large, two smaller coaches<br />
dwarf our car --<br />
Katajuta’s sunset approaches<br />
Meryl Brown Tobin<br />
Old temple altar<br />
morning sun lights Buddha’s face<br />
countenance of calm<br />
By cool mountain stream<br />
Buddha rests on mossy rock<br />
embracing silence<br />
Beneath clear blue sky<br />
grey silent concrete towers<br />
sterile silhouettes<br />
Full moon shines through trees<br />
a quilt of dancing shadows<br />
covers sleeping child<br />
Dorothea Trafford Lavery<br />
Haiku Group, Society of Women Writers, Victoria<br />
_____________________<br />
South Coast Speakers<br />
Toastmasters<br />
Meet on the 2nd and 4th<br />
Wednesday from 7.30pm to 9.30pm<br />
at the San Remo Hotel, 145 Marine Parade,<br />
San Remo.<br />
If you would like to come to check it out,<br />
call Brigitte 0421 812 691<br />
info@southcoastspeakers.org.au<br />
About the Author<br />
Magda Szubanski is one of Australia’s best<br />
known and most loved performers. She<br />
began her career in university revues, then<br />
appeared in a number of sketch comedy<br />
shows before creating the iconic character of<br />
Sharon Strzelecki in ABC-TV’s Kath and<br />
Kim. She has also acted in films (Babe,<br />
Babe: Pig in the City, Happy Feet, The<br />
Golden Compass) and stage<br />
shows. Reckoning is her first book.<br />
Heartbreaking, joyous, traumatic, intimate<br />
and revelatory, Reckoning is the book where<br />
Magda Szubanski, one of Australia’s most<br />
beloved performers, tells her story.<br />
In this extraordinary memoir, Magda<br />
describes her journey of self-discovery from<br />
a suburban childhood, haunted by the<br />
demons of her father’s espionage activities<br />
in wartime Poland and by her secret<br />
awareness of her sexuality, to the complex<br />
dramas of adulthood and her need to find<br />
out the truth about herself and her family.<br />
With courage and compassion she addresses<br />
her own frailties and fears, and asks the big<br />
questions about life, about the shadows we<br />
inherit and the gifts we pass on.<br />
Honest, poignant and utterly captivating,<br />
Reckoning announces the arrival of a<br />
fearless writer and natural storyteller. It will<br />
touch the lives of its readers.<br />
Booktopia review notes<br />
2016 ABIA (Australian Book Industry<br />
Awards) Book of the Year Winner<br />
2016 ABIA (Australian Book Industry<br />
Awards) Biography of the Year Winner<br />
2016 NSW Premier's Literary Awards<br />
Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction<br />
Winner<br />
Order your copy now...<br />
http://www.booktopia.com.au/reckoningmagda-szubanski/<br />
prod9781925240436.html<br />
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