Ollie Lind Poetry

Ever since the dawn of time many religions and sets of beliefs have ascribed a personality for death. My personal belief is that death is a natural concequence of life. It is not to be feared, simply accepted as an interrruption to the journey. What happens after that I leave up to you. I have [...]

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I was looking at the news the other night and saw (again) details of strife in the West Bank. We tend to become desensitized to violence, particularly religious violence. But it’s still real people who are suffering, and for what? This poem is simply my way of looking at the subject. I am not a [...]

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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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