Mica Paris "My One Temptation" 1988

it was the year
of lonely train journeys
whistles and platforms
my world ripped apart


the  die was cast
all bridges burnt
with no choice
but to start again

months and years
merged into each other
it all became a distant memory
until i hear this song

Writers' Pantry # 30

Weekly Scribblings # 29 Writing About Food

a quivering
chocolate blancmange
beckons
winking provocatively

dont look
dont look back
turn the other cheek
look away
resist temptation

who wants an arse
the size
of a kardashian ocean liner

Weekly Scibblings # 28

thought i was seeing things
the dancing donald
geriatric genius
of faux pas
hits the stage

still cant believe
he happened
it happened
it's happening
in a few months time
could still be happening

unless someone pops a balloon
snaps their fingers and says
session's over
you can wake up now america
you have been living a bad dream
four years
enough already

2CELLOS - Cinema Paradiso [Live at Sydney Opera House]

Farewell Maestro Ennio Morricone 1928 - 2020




 News this week that Ennio Morricone, the composer of numerous timeless film scores, had died at the age of 91 was met with an outpouring of grief and tribute from the international film community. But that emotion also stretched well beyond the biz, as was evidenced at this week’s round of soccer fixtures in his native Italy.

Cinquain / Shadorma

sometimes
we need good news
mum survived the bush fires
her joey may survive summer
with luck

here soon
time flies quickly
seasons merge - in six weeks
summer fire season will begin
in spring 

blue skies
i treasure them 
last summer there were none
windows closed and smoke everywhere
nightmare

it' s been a
mild winter so far
pandemic
under wraps
for a while before it spreads
like everywhere else

our bears
will be okay
if la nina arrives
forecast says she will this summer
who knows


as for you
please stay safe for me
i need you
to keep me
strong- going on -here's lookin'
at you lovely one

Writers Pantry #28

Writers Pantry # 26 PSU

Approximately 3,000 residents live in the nine public housing estates across Flemington and North Melbourne.(ABC News)

The residents are being told to stay in nine Melbourne public housing estates for at least five days. Police will be stationed on each floor to prevent them from leaving.Other apartment blocks in the same postal codes which ARE IN LOCK DOWN due to corona virus,  will not be subjected to this rigorous internment with a police presence ...only public housing residents.





little boxes
crammed together
little boxes made of ticky tacky
little boxes
little boxes
piled up high to the sky

they're called towers
for the losers
for the old folk
for the mental folk
little boxes
little boxes
where they all  go insane

then the cops come
guard the exits
lock them all up
in their little traps
and the refugees
and the old ones
flip out
yet once again

they remember
comrade pol pot
josef stalin
and the taliban
and they came here
to escape that
but  it's  here yet
once again

so the message is
and will always be
never fall into poverty
cos the world just don't  like it
and they'll make you pay again

To the tune of Little Boxes by Pete Seeger