What is it they say? It never rains in Southern California? Well, I’m here to tell you the same’s true of the Gold Coast, on the south-east coast of Queensland. They say it’s beautiful one day, perfect the next. I think it’s just bone-dry Except that the farmers end up in drought as 80% of […]
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Cosmofunnel IV – an ode to love
Well, my life as a Copy-writer has recently begun and has provided me with a positive attitude. Not that I didn’t have a positive attitude already, just that this copy-writing caper has energised my free-thinking and directed me to thoughts of love. Ahhh, love. Now there’s a topic we all, well…love. So here’s an ode […]
Cosmofunnel III – somewhat wobbly
Well hello again, Been a little busy of late, what, with one thing and another, so haven’t had much spare time to visit my neglected blog. Cosmofunnel have seen me knock on their door occasionally, however, and some of the poems that follow are the result of that investment. Check them out, then sign up […]
Cosmofunnel II – the lampshade & the hatstand
Please visit Cosmofunnel.com to see my latest offerings, including:- The lamp-shade and the hat-stand Poem by Owen Tilley https://cosmofunnel.com/poems/the-lamp-shade-and-the-hat-stand-115788 It came upon a winter’s day Poem by Owen Tilley – COSMOFUNNEL https://cosmofunnel.com/poems/it-came-upon-a-winters-day-120689 A life less lived within Poem by Owen Tilley – COSMOFUNNEL https://cosmofunnel.com/poems/a-life-less-lived-within-119849 Game Show Poem by Owen Tilley – COSMOFUNNEL https://cosmofunnel.com/poems/game-show-119499 Others still […]
The Cotton Dress
He slunked down to the ground He saw a shadow, not his own “Where have you been?” She asked him with surprise. “I’ve been here getting shade From the baking morning sun.” The park was empty But for their huon cries. “You left me,” she said, scolding him. “You wanted time alone. Besides, […]
Night-time
Night-time wouldn’t show itself Until Sunshine moved away Like a road-way that disappears in flood Like a child who will stray Night-time hid away God knows where Like a sock hides in a shoe Not wanting to come out and play Like when I played hide and seek with you The pages turned […]
Eumundi
I felt relieved I was no longer On the freeway. Happy, too, that I’d left Traffic lights behind. In two hours I’d gone from a gold coast To adventure. The sunshine was my GPS – I’d peeled away life’s rind. ‘We love our kids, we love our town, please slow down’ Read the sign. […]
I built a home
in honour of those who have… I achieved where many others failed – I’m satisfied though many others aren’t. My path told me to walk the path I could And led me away from the path I can’t. And sacrifice instructed me to stay As loss, oh loss, would lead me to succeed. Certainty would […]
My first time
It happened. I’d heard people talk about it, in writing groups and elsewhere, but had never felt the emotion that overtakes when it happens to you. The other day, a friend of mine rang me up and said; “Guess what? Your book isn’t in the book-store.” “Of course not,” I replied. Patience, dear friend, patience. […]
No vacancy
‘No vacancy’, her sign said As I strolled by a second time ‘Why?’ I wondered. Was her mind closed to adventure? Or just closed? I’d seen her in happier times When her and I were one ‘I love you’, her lips said I smiled, looked into her eyes And held her hand. Happier times than […]
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