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Australian Poets

Anne Skyvington — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 07:09:10 +0000

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Spiritual Poetry Through the Ages

Anne Skyvington — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 22:23:26 +0000

Rumi: 1207- Lift Now the Lid of the Jar of Heaven Many Sufis believed that alcoholic inebriation might lesson the veil between this world and the next Pour, cupbearers, the wine of the invisible,The name and sign of what has no sign!Pour it abundantly, it is you who enrich the soulMake the soul drunk, and […]

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Women’s Liberation in the Seventies

Anne Skyvington — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 23:11:28 +0000

A Personal Journey The 1970s were a time of great change in Australia. This post is based on my memories of that time and the beginning of the Women’s Movement in Sydney, Australia. By 1972, the fledgling beginnings of a feminist movement were evident in Australia. It had started, like many such reform movements, by […]

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For International Women’s Day:

Anne Skyvington — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 04:13:26 +0000

What are the four waves of feminism? And what comes next? I have republished this article by Sharon Crozier-De Rosa from "The Conversation" under a Creative Commons license. Sharon Crozier-De Rosa, University of Wollongong In Western countries, feminist history is generally packaged as a story of “waves”. The so-called first wave lasted from the mid-19th century […]

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Healing After Trauma—THE DEATH OF A SPOUSE: This Post Written by Ian Wells

Anne Skyvington — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 04:17:22 +0000

Anne says: I’m reposting this today, as it is so very relevant to all of us as we age, and risk losing loved ones who are also ageing. My dear Grandma used to say how it’s those that are left who suffer, not the dying. And as Ian shows us, you can be comforted by […]

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Swimming Pools in Coogee

Anne Skyvington — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 05:28:20 +0000

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. It brightens up the area and makes a statement about supporting stigmatised […]

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Finding peace … going deeper … meditating

Anne Skyvington — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 05:01:20 +0000

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 earth. But we in the West are brought up with the idea […]

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Mystical poems that I have loved…

Anne Skyvington — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 06:53:59 +0000

uguries of Innocence

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

A Robin Red Breast in a Cage
Puts all Heaven in a Rage.
A dove house fill’d with doves & Pigeons
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity’s sun rise.

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Some favourite poets in English

Anne Skyvington — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 02:22:22 +0000

The Metaphysical Poets wrote as if God was in heaven and all was well down here on earth

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Yarrawarrah

Anne Skyvington — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 04:09:47 +0000

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 there (Engadine Station) or a bit […]

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