Tag: Australia
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Quotes About Writing
Image: Vintage Fountain Pen ~ Kriss Szkurlatowski Before I get into this post, I mentioned in my last post that I’d write a review of the new Star Trek film after I saw it. I posted it earlier at my other blog if anyone wants to check it out. If you haven’t seen the film…
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One Week Later
Image: Fire in Upper Ferntree Gully ~ jsarcadia This is a follow up to the poem I posted earlier about Black Saturday and the bushfires in Victoria. I wrote the poem as a way of trying to move through the horror I felt in the days following the tragedy. There were so many images, so…
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Hell on Earth
Image: Smoke Clouds ~ Jety Red sunrise burningWind howling among the treesNature is unleashed The beauty of fireAn unstoppable furyDancing on the wind Eucalypt forestAncient trees of memoryScorched by angry flames Smoke clouding the skyEmbers falling like raindropsIn the darkest light Twenty years of lifeReduced to rubble and ashWe have each other A fallen tree…
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Where does your country rank?
I’ve just been looking over Reporters Without Borders‘ annual survey and it has some interesting results. The Worldwide Press Freedom Index ranked Iceland at the top of the rankings, while Eritrea replaced North Korea as the worst offender. RWB also found that bloggers are coming under as much threat as traditional journalists, with more countries…