by Anne Skyvington | Mar 3, 2024 | Writing Australia
The Mardi Gras festival for the Gay and Lesbian community (LGBTQ) occurred as usual in March, within stricter guidelines than in the past, because of Covid. Randwick Council showed great initiative in promoting a rainbow coloured walkway on the steps at Coogee Beach....
by Anne Skyvington | Feb 20, 2024 | Writing Spirit, Writing Topics
What is Meditation? “It’s what happy and successful people do,” I was told, when I first started learning about meditation and how to do it. The Dalai Lama and other Tibetan Buddhists believe that happiness is the actual goal of most people on...
by Anne Skyvington | Feb 3, 2024 | Poetry, Writing Spirit
WILLIAM BLAKE The Tyger Tyger, Tyger, burning brightIn the forests of the night,What immortal hand or eyeCould frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skiesBurnt the fire of thine eyes?On what wings dare he aspire?What the hand dare seize the fire? And...
by Anne Skyvington | Jan 26, 2024 | Poetry
W. H. Auden: Stop the Clocks * Note the melodic iambic pentameter and internal rhymeStop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,Silence the pianos and with muffled drumBring out the coffin, let the mourners come.Let...
by Anne Skyvington | Nov 1, 2023 | Writing Australia
In the Sutherland Shire 32 kilometres south of Sydney is a hilly tree-rich suburb on the edge of the National Park with an indigenous ring to it: Yarrawarrah. It lies next to Engadine with Heathcote and Waterfall further to the south. It takes one hour by train to get...
