I'd love to live in a tree house
way up high inside the clouds
where I know I wouldn't arouse...

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My dear dear friend
with processor and keys
to turn you on and off...

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...Melting the ice
From hearts and minds
Frozen...

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The entire post plus a link to The Ode can be found on the Oz Poetic Society Blog.

To be born different is not a sin,
Judge me not for the colour of my skin,
With no choice on where to be born...

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Green grass and chafed knees
Collide with flying balls and outstretched hands
Midst the bi-directional shouts...

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Further information can be found at the Oz Poetic Society Blog.

This honour is presented to Norma Martiri for her contributing poem: Jacaranda, which appeared as the Weekly Poem for the week beginning 18th March 2012.

Congratulations to Norma for her achievement!

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Since my birth
To your death...

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as the tender sun bore down upon your golden threads
melting milky golden hours from your dress
sudden sprung paradise, right from your head...

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In everyday plight
With no sight
of the light...

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September blooms of purple hues,
adorn the city street.
And in bright splendour...

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Far from the the suburb's grwoing sprawl
or hourly freight trains on the track,
far from the crowded...

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A breathless take spoken in silence, divorces memory from repression
Like gash oozes the darkness of distant but now present pasts
That I had left sheathed, embedded deliberately in the novice of conscience...

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We honour old veterans, we honour them with pride
and read of all the horrors they have carried deep inside.
We know they served in Asia or...

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Walking up that treacherous trail
Along that dry river bed
Rocks and peebles crunched...

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Why should we continue to afford
them our trust, if they can't
get over the 'boom and the bust'...

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Bending together and crossing over
two as ancient as their rings...

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Finding my inner voice,
I had succumbed to worldly noise,
By living a life of fame...

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What if today was to be your last,
Do you have a list of what's a must,
Would you smell the flowers or hug a tree...

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Say nothing; don't speak but tell me of your love.
Just a touch; show me now your heart...

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Do not be afraid to shine.
This world needs what you have to give.
Open up the areas of your being...

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Adrift in my dreams I go through this space,
I know in my heart we'll meet with good grace,
I call out your name and I hope you call mine...

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We hope to see you all return in 2012.

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Are they Demons of the mind or Demons of the dark
They attack our souls leaving them bare and stark
Insatiable power to invite deaths seduction...

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I can hear him, smell him
He gets closer, his hot breath...

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the familiar embrace
was tentacular confusion
declared sane by an ever present...

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With yearning ceased and the agony halted
an enlightened heart lifts my days
Though my trust still damaged and torn...

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