Ollie Lind Poetry

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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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 drew inspiration for this poem from the knowledge that every major city on the planet has this problem. I believe we owe it to [tag-tec]our children[/tag-tec] 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 [...]

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