Ecology Archives - The Art of Creative Writing https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/category/writing-topics/ecology/ Your muse is live in the city and the bush Fri, 08 Mar 2024 22:39:44 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 The Myth of Persephone and Demeter https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/the-myth-of-persephone-and-demeter/ https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/the-myth-of-persephone-and-demeter/#respond Mon, 13 Jan 2020 12:44:00 +0000 https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/?p=14317 Can this myth assist us in understanding a little better, and in coming to terms with what is happening here?

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]]> https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/the-myth-of-persephone-and-demeter/feed/ 0 The earth is sick and in need of salvage https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/the-earth-is-sick-and-in-need-of-salvage/ https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/the-earth-is-sick-and-in-need-of-salvage/#comments Mon, 21 Aug 2017 05:28:47 +0000 https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/?p=12527 Sick Earth The earth is sick, its lungs stuffed and out of puff, its bones brittle near to break cancer cells spreading throughout its crests amid tumescent landfill dense as gas Her womb’s barren as melting ice all of this oblivious only to the unexamined life There’s a stone in the kidney of the earth […]

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]]> https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/the-earth-is-sick-and-in-need-of-salvage/feed/ 2 Temperature Records Broken in Australia this Weekend https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/temperature-records-broken-australia-weekend/ https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/temperature-records-broken-australia-weekend/#comments Wed, 15 Feb 2017 12:35:07 +0000 http://www.anneskyvington.com/?p=9567 We live near the beach at Coogee, so we are fortunate enough to get a fairly constant sea breeze.  But other areas in Western Sydney and in the Western plains were not so lucky. Residents of Richmond on the north-west fringe of Sydney saw the mercury climb to 47 degrees on Saturday, placing the town […]

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