Month: July 2024

Report on 6th Gadigal Ginko – Winter 2024

A small group gathered in historic Camperdown Cemetery in Newtown, Sydney, on Saturday 13th July: Jane Gibian, Vanessa Proctor, Carol Reynolds, Susan Grant, Zina Ioannou and Leanne Mumford. Surrounded by Camperdown Memorial Rest Park, its tall trees and remnant native grass help make the cemetery a welcome place for quiet recreation in the inner city.

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Featured Haiku – Under the Same Moon (Australian Haiku Anthology)

This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is Tasmanian poet and artist, Ron C. Moss.

old horses
days of endless rain
in their eyes

 

tangerine sunset
a small boy gallops
his stick-pony home

 

fire duty
the newly ironed shirt
still warm

 

starglow . . .
pieces of whale bone
worn smooth

 

sudden thunder
the harmonica player
bends a note

 

– Ron C. Moss

Report on the Bindii Meeting June 29 2024

Julia Wakefield, Jake Dennis, Steve Wigg, Stella Damarjati, Maureen Sexton, Subha Goonaratne and Lynette Arden met on Saturday June 29 at 3pm, using Google Meet. Apologies were received from Ewan Rourke and Maeve Archibald.  

We workshopped our haiku, some of which addressed the the topic for this meeting, which was ‘creepy crawlies’. We also commented on some of the winning and shortlisted entries for the Touchstone Awards,

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