Ollie Lind Poetry

It’s funny how the most disparate incidents can trigger emotion. Some years ago the Salvation Army had a TV ad running that depicted an old man in a torn singlet looking into a dirty, cracked mirror. He was looking at himself as a young man, wasting his life on alcohol and drugs. It touched me [...]

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I love to write poetry. I don’t know about you, but I find it soothing to my soul. This particular one was inspired by an old man who used to parade up and down the footpath alongside a particularly busy highway in Sydney, Australia. He walked up and down with a sandwich-board adorned with signs [...]

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