Ollie Lind Poetry

I often look at why so many people get stuck in the past and lose their opportunity to live life to the full. Similarly many just dream of the future and don’t do anything. I have always believed we must have a balance and that is what this poem is about. I hope you enjoy. [...]

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Living Have you ever wondered why so many take their life so seriously? Hoard each moment, don’t waste any; grasping time deleriously. As if living were to be consumed like food and drink, drunk to the full. Never the past to be exhumed, lest memory makes them fearful. Living should be a combination, present, past [...]

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So many times we eat alone. At least I do. Then I think of the times when I have had company for dinner, or just shared a snack with someone. It’s probably one of the more enjoyable pastimes we indulge in. I wrote this poem after a dinner with friends some time ago. There is [...]

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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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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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