Tasmanian Times
Poetry & Short Stories
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427Wisdom from a Long Life
To speak to your younger, more naive self in another, and teach them before they may repeat your mistakes will heal the...
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Book Review: ‘The Lives of Sharks’
The Lives of Sharks – A Natural History of Shark Life, by Daniel C Abel and R Dean Grubbs, is a hardback...
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A Fado Poem – Geoff Holloway
Eyes that happen to seduce – as only scorpionic eyes know how; cartographically performed, passionate, forlorn and fatalistic; Greenland melts – awash...
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Poems – Protecting Our Natural Assets
1. Torched They scorched the earth, every – living – thing; torched it to death while the registers sung. What were they...
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A Valentines’ Day Poem on Election Announcement Day
Labor is red, Liberals are blue; Hey other options! I’m lusting for you … – Anon
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Promises (a Fado poem)
‘Não quero que me prometas a lua e o firmamento, quero apenas que me digas que me tens no pensamento’, The moon...
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The Cone of Silence in Tasmania
I wrote this poem in response to The Monthly article ‘The Rotten Core’ by Nick Feik (Feb, 2024). The Cone of Silence...
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You’re The Solution Too
Do not let the sun go down on your anger, nor the moon see your rage. Let not the rain see you...
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Singled Man
Gentled ejection, choice honed by Hobson; Leave, live in garage. Join ranks of life-losers, the disposable date-expired. Loss of relationship, wounding....
