tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1558368795390826762024-03-14T01:38:41.936+10:00a hazy moonDelwynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16813713107604750354noreply@blogger.comBlogger432125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155836879539082676.post-5985655625805580452011-12-09T07:11:00.000+10:002011-12-09T07:11:37.814+10:00Deeds not Words<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">the wind invisible<br />and the dust manifest<br />you see
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Rumi </span></div>Delwynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16813713107604750354noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155836879539082676.post-45751734598681215982011-12-04T15:47:00.000+10:002011-12-04T16:16:11.223+10:00Very Early on Sunshine Beach<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Oh happy day... </span></div>Delwynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16813713107604750354noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155836879539082676.post-28006349313755760772011-12-02T12:23:00.000+10:002011-12-02T12:23:50.537+10:00Aloha<div style="color: red; font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">One early morning</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">taking the riverside path</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">opposite my home</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Noosa River</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">a sedate old lady</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">makes her way to the river mouth</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and ocean</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the mighty Pacific</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">weaving its way down from the Lakes</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Cootharaba, Cooroibah</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">originating in the Great Sandy National park</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Richard Branson purchased </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">near Tewantin township in 2003</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">A small 9 hectare heart shaped island</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">originally called Pig Island</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">as pigs were once quarantined there</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">You can stay the night</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">in luxury for only $9000.00</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">without the pigs...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Though they grow well, the coconuts</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the climate not warm enough</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">thousands upon thousands of them</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">except for a few stragglers</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The river is a place for meeting</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">a kurrajong - a genus of about 30 species</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and flaunts her beauty</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">like hundreds and thousands</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">maybe you know them as non pareils </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">like the rainbow serpent </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-style: normal;">The only reality I can possibly know</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-style: normal;"> is the world as </span></i><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;">I
perceive</span></b><i><span style="font-style: normal;"> and experience it</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-style: normal;"> at this moment</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-style: normal;"> The only reality you can possibly
know</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-style: normal;"> is the world as </span></i><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;">you
perceive</span></b><i><span style="font-style: normal;">
and experience it</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-style: normal;"> at this moment</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></i></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-style: normal;">And
the only certainty is </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-style: normal;">that those perceived realities are different</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i> <span style="font-style: normal;">There
are as many real worlds</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-style: normal;"> as there are people</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It has been hot in Noosa</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">so I ventured out one morning at 5.30am</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">looking through the curtain</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casuarina">Casuarina</a> tassels</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A baby brown snake </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">this one left </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">for the Great Rainbow Serpent </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">in the sky</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Rainbow Serpent</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">is one of the great spirits of creation</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">who inhabits deep permanent waterholes</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">He descended from the dark streak</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">in the Milky Way</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"> Tobwabba Collective Art</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">and reveals himself as a rainbow</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">as he moves through water and rain</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">In Aboriginal legend</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">creating deep valleys and rivers</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">nourishing the planet</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaranga">Macaranga</a> flower that I showed you</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you spiral into its void</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">a hundred voices will thunder messages</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">he only noticed us when we were quite close</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">he has large ear holes</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and doesn't seem to hear very well</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">when I uploaded the images</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">he is using his long extended tongue</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">he can detect the scent of rotting carrion</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> from as far away as 9 km</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">that's about 6 miles </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This lace monitor</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">is dark grey with numerous </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and black and cream bands on his tail</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He was thought to be non venomous</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and infections from bites </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri</b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> 1932—21 June 2002 </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The goanna features prominently </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">in Aboriginal mythology and folklore</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">as well as in their art work and diet</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He is considered a high risk </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but tasty meal...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> San Sebastian ~ Raphael</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I said what about my eyes?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Keep them on the road."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I said what about my passion?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Keep it burning."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I said what about my heart?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Tell me what you hold inside it?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I said pain and sorrow.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;">"stay with it."</span></div>
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</div>Delwynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16813713107604750354noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155836879539082676.post-9938513847503159892011-11-01T14:56:00.000+10:002011-11-01T14:57:00.691+10:00From Sunshine Beach<div style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Dull and cloudy but warm today</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I left from Sunshine Beach village</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">then climbed up the dunes</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I entered a sanctum</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the roar of the ocean subsided</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and the forest stood still</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">waiting</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I too stood still and watched</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">looking above me</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">in the eucalypts and melaleucas</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I see a native orchid flowering</span></div>
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<br />Delwynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16813713107604750354noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155836879539082676.post-88993061727815538382011-10-29T07:05:00.000+10:002011-11-01T20:08:21.220+10:00Lolly Pink<div style="color: #a64d79; font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">they are always able </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tonight's sunset glowed golden red </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">as it stretched out </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On the path to Hell's Gates today</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I saw one large goanna</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">a number of pods of small dolphins</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and he is using his beak and dexterous tongue</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">over here in the banksia</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://coccinella-ladybug.blogspot.com/">Alaine</a> my blog friend has told me </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">that cockatoos always grasp food </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">with their left feet</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">isn't that fascinating</span>...</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">making quite a noise </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">until she too takes flight</span></div>
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">to join her family</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">These are yellow tailed Black Cockatoos</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the biggest of the cockatoos</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and they usually herald the advent of rain</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They flap deeply and slowly</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">in a heavy fluid motion</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">you can hear them coming</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">by their wing beats </span></div>
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">and their loud eerie mournful wailing calls</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I have seen them </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">in this cluster of banksia trees before </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">perhaps it's a favourite family haunt...</span></span><br />
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<br />Delwynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16813713107604750354noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155836879539082676.post-74450220878051944052011-10-24T17:27:00.000+10:002011-10-24T17:28:34.484+10:00Heaven<br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is the heaven we enter</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">through institutional grace</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and there are the yellow finches bathing and singing</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">in the lowly puddle</span></div>
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Mary Oliver wrote the above lines<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is the blessing we receive</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">from ordained clerics</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and there is the sunlight sifting through the trees</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">onto the green forest</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are the holy books from which we learn</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the theology of man</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and there are the Scribbly Gums</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and the tracks of seagulls</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is the communion of people</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and of sacraments</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and there is walking in awe</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">in the green blue cathedral of Nature</span></div>
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Later<br />
I related to a friend<br />
how I had been inspired<br />
to write these lines<br />
and she told me about<br />
Longfellow's poem:</div>
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My Cathedral</div>
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Like two cathedral towers these stately pines</div>
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uplift their fretted summits tipped with cones</div>
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The arch beneath them is not built with stones</div>
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Not art but nature traced these lovely lines,</div>
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And carved this graceful arabesque of vines:</div>
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No organ but the wind here sighs and moans,</div>
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No sepulchre conceals a martyr's bones</div>
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No marble bishop on his tomb reclines.</div>
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Enter! the pavement, carpeted with leaves,</div>
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Gives back a softened echo to thy soft tread!</div>
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Listen! the choir is singing;all the birds,</div>
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In Leafy galleries beneath the eaves,</div>
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Are Singing! listen, ere the sound be fled,</div>
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And learn there may be worship without words ..</div>
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Oh Holy<br />
Heavenly<br />
Happy days...</div>
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<br />Delwynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16813713107604750354noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155836879539082676.post-19909173333925865662011-10-21T11:32:00.000+10:002011-10-21T17:40:09.405+10:001969 Time Warp*<br />
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1969 Making a film for fun...</div>
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In 1969, when I was in my last year of high school in Christchurch, New Zealand, a girlfriend and I, along with two film maker friends, made a short three minute movie to the song Society's Child.<br />
The film was released on the sole television channel at the time and aired as an 'interlude' - a filler when the programming, for some reason, didn't run to schedule.<br />
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The song Society's Child, was first released in 1965 by Janis Ian, a sixteen year old. She had written the song when only thirteen. The song concerned the taboo subject of inter racial romance and caused quite a stir at the time.<br />
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The song tells of a girl's inter racial romance that was forbidden by her mother and frowned upon by her peers and teachers. The girl eventually decides to end the relationship claiming that societal norms and pressure left her with no other choice.<br />
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Ian received hate mail and death threats.<br />
Ian said later that she lived in a near all black community and was one of only five white children in her school so that she saw the issue from both sides. She also regrets the hurt the song caused her family and the fact that her father was branded a racist when this wasn't the case.<br />
She said she wrote the song to reflect the way things were in the community at that time.<br />
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The song became a hit after it was featured on Leonard Bernstein's TV special -<br />
Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution.<br />
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Our little film looked at the issue of class differences and the difficulty of breaching class barriers and forming cross class friendships.<br />
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The tall fellow in the top shot has become a respected New Zealand filmmaker, well known for his Antarctic filming. Working for NHNZ, a film production company, Max Quinn has made over twenty films in the antarctic regions.<br />
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To slip back to the late sixties click here:<br />
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Pity about the false eyelashes...<br />
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<a href="http://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/contexts/icy_ecosystems/nz_research/new_zealand_ipy_caml_voyage_to_the_southern_ocean/life_on_board_the_tangaroa"><br /></a>Delwynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16813713107604750354noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155836879539082676.post-12025192737819414542011-10-19T11:17:00.000+10:002011-10-19T11:17:36.006+10:00Everlasting<div style="color: #7f6000; font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">I bent down to look closely</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and spotted a splash of yellow</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">by the coastal breeze</span></div>
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am part of the sun as my eye is part of me </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">That I am part of the
earth my feet know perfectly</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> and my blood is part of the sea</span></div>
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is not any part of me that is alone </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">and absolute except my mind </span></div>
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we shall find that the mind has no existence by itself</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> it is only
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-small;">A Small Frill Neck Lizard poses for me</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was hot today</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">we were all hungry</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">at the edge of the rain-forest</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">a native of the rainforests of Queensland</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He has attractive black </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and yellow/brown markings </span></div>
<span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">and a gorgeous iridescent pearl eye</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Walking up the steep steps </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">behind the township</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">of Noosa Heads this morning</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was bemoaning the fact </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">that I never see </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">while they must be there in the trees, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">old logs and deep leafy carpet</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> on the forest floor</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I found a bright little flower on the path</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">he stopped very still</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">he scampered into the leafy camouflage</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">he's a Bearded dragon</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">with rows of spiny scales on his throat</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">which he can puff and expand if threatened</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and also spines on the back of his head</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He has a hand waving gesture</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">to indicate submission to other dragons</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">like a chameleon</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The bearded dragon enjoys basking in the sun</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">in dry arid zones of Australia</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He's an omnivore and also diurnal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Dragon can grow 45-60 cm </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">half of which is tail</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and despite his angry appearance </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">he makes a gentle pet...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It has been a good Sunday wildlife walk</span></div>
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<br />Delwynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16813713107604750354noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155836879539082676.post-10191976503371016832011-10-09T16:22:00.000+10:002011-10-09T16:22:07.963+10:00Ruffled<div style="color: #073763; font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">the breeze is warm</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">stopping at a favourite tree</span></div>
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