Life, universes and everything according to Ollie
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 3rd, 2008
I want to share some of these experiences with you. To me, one of the greatest sources of joy for me is writing poetry. It releases my soul and allows me to express beauty, sadness and what to me is the essence of living; being connected to others.
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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!With the world sliding towards the financial abyss at an ever increasing pace we must face up to the fact that we, as a generation, blew it. We can blame greedy financiers, the ’smart’ people who lost sight of [...]
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Posted in Observations on Life on May 4th, 2008
I don’t know about you, but there’s something about the snap in the air on a fresh autumn morning. I was driving down a street near the city on Saturday morning and I was struck by the many hued trees shedding their leaves. It was beautiful to see. Yet I saw a fellow angrily brushing [...]
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A young lady calls me from time to time. We have never met but I, as a writer, imagine what she is like. I try to create a past, present and future for the disembodied voice on the telephone. This gives me a character I can relate to. I hope you enjoy.
Live well,
Ollie Lind
Whitney
I hear [...]
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This weekend we had Super Sunday. The cricket was on between Australia and India, the soccer grand final was next door between Newcastle Jets and Central Coast Mariners. Both venues were packed and the TV audience would have been in the millions. Have you ever wondered why we have such a fascination for sport? I [...]
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A game I have always been fascinated with, but unable to excel at, is chess. I once saw two guys play a full game without a board. They called their moves and another guy followed them on the board. I was absolutely in awe of the intellectual capacity of these guys.
It struck me that [...]
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Posted in Poems on Feb 12th, 2008
I was having dinner with a lady friend in a restaurant on the North Shore in Sydney some time ago. She is of German descent and, naturally, we were in a German restaurant. She is a life long friend and we know each other as well as brothers and sisters do. I noticed this young [...]
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Posted in Poems on Feb 11th, 2008
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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Posted in Poems on Feb 4th, 2008
I drew inspiration for this poem from the knowledge that every major city on the planet has this problem. I believe we owe it to our children to protect them from the circumstances depicted in the poem. So many of us simply shut our eyes when we see these children. If just one person stops [...]
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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 that [...]
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Life, universes and everything according to Ollie
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