Poetry
Growing Up
This is the first set of poems I wrote between 1983 to 1990. The writing of these poems almost never happened. If it hadn’t been for the encouragement of my year 11 and 12 English teachers, I may have chosen a very different medium to express myself. The poems cover a series of reflections on what humanity thinks is important and how people treat each other. Please note that most of these early poems were written before the term politically correct was invented, so the reader will find gender specific words like “man” still used. Its not till the early 1990s that I began using gender neutral language. This occured by my second anthology.
- Me.
1983- Technology.
1983- Emptiness Within
1983- Recovery
1983- The Circle
1983- The Universe – Force
1983- Nationality
1983- Time
1983- Poverty
1983- Friend
1983- Budgerigar
1983- Love
1984- A Thought Of Peace.
1984- Parting With An Incapacitated Friend
1984- Completeness
1984- Loneliness
1985- A Thought – No, Just A Feeling…
1985- An Everlasting Question
1986- Life
1986- Let It Be
1986- The Oneness Of Man And Woman.
1986- Learning
1987- Human Within Humanity
1987- Once Upon A…
1987- The Jolly Bunch
1987- The Realisation
1987- Meeting
1988- A Lie???
1988- Queensland Expo / Expo Queensland
1988- The Old Child
1988- Eroded Innocence
1988- Knight Waiting
1988- The Facades Of Life
1988- A Princess Today
1988- Someone Special
1988- To Speak Or Not To Speak
1988- Knowing…
1988- Her Sadness And Her Strength
1988- Imaginary? Playmates.
1989- No Need To Stop Before You Start
1989- Justice???
1989- Insight And Wisdom From Parents?
1989- A Father’s Stand…
1989- What Do I Do With This God?
1989- The Loss Of Love?
1989- Warmth
1989- Three Parts – Responsibilities
1990- Three Parts – House
1990- Three Parts – Daisy
1990- Me? You? …Us.
1990- Happy Endings…
1990
Ungrouped
These poems are yet to be included in an anthology. As they get allocated, their posting will be moved to the relevant category, a backing theme will be added to their audio track and their entry in this index page will change from ungrouped to their respective group.
- An Order
1990- Too Fast.
1991- The Golden Bridge
1991- Casting Off The Handed Down Toxin.
1992- Chaos In Sterility – The Western World…
1992- The Youth Wage.
1992- To Quell The Racism…
1992- Soul Port
1993- Going Home, To Rest…
1993- The Onward Struggle – Making A Place Of Our Own
1993- Cotton, Steel and Plastic.
1994- Beginnings
1997- Cleared City Land
1998- A Lite Blanket, A Brick Wall…
2001- Curvature
2001- Unknown Sage
2001- Soldier Blood
2001- W.T.C.
2001- Rainbow…
2003- The Stubbled Face…
2003- The Englishman…
2003- A Neighbour Weeding
2004- Out Of Mind
2005- Monkeyed
2006- Creativity
2007- Cleo The Cat
2007- A Cup Of Tea Or A Beer?
2008- Shadow Takes Reality
2008- Trauma
2008- Relative
2008- Respect
2008- He Made Her Cry…
2009- Everything Is OK
2009- Did You Ever Exist?
2009- The Havoc They Reeked!
2009- Killing The Dandy Lion
2009- Cruising Through Time
2009- Bertimou
2009- Olive Grove
2010- Oceans Of Misery
2010- Waiting To Know
2010