
Iambic Images 7.
©Jeff Guess 2017

On This Day – Australian Poet Judith Wright born in 1915
Judith Wright (1915-2000) was a prolific Australian poet, critic, and short-story writer, who published more than 50 books. Wright was also an uncompromising environmentalist and social activist campaigning for Aboriginal land rights. She believed that the poet should be concerned with national and social problems. At the age of 85, just before her death, she attended in Canberra at a march for reconciliation with Aboriginal people. South of my days' circle, part of my blood'

Bookmark 3 (for Harley)
Book Mark ©Jeff Guess 2017

Monostich 2.
The sea, the sea, the sea – notice anything? Jeff Guess ©Jeff Guess 2017

The Bard 8.
'I am bound upon a wheel of fire.' King Lear Act 4, Scene 7 ©Jeff Guess 2017

1.The Town I Loved So Well: Images of Gawler SA.
The home of the May Brothers (Industrial manufacturers), latter half of the 1880s . Sixteenth Street, Gawler, SA. Alfred May (1851 – 1920) Frederick May (1840 – 1897) ©Jeff Guess 2017

On This Day - Robert Allen Zimmerman, American poet, songwriter, singer, painter, writer, and Nobel
from Love Minus Zero / No Limit by Bob Dylan The cloak and dagger dangles
Madams light the candles
In ceremonies of the horsemen
Even the pawn must hold a grudge
Statues made of matchsticks
Crumble into one another
My love winks she does not bother
She knows too much to argue or to judge The bridge at midnight trembles
The country doctor rambles
Bankers' nieces seek perfection
Expecting all the gifts that wise men bring
The wind howls like a hammer
The night wind

The Bard 7.
'To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub.' Hamlet Act 3, Scene 1 ©Jeff Guess 2017

The Egyptian Room:
The South Australian Museum
Some years ago I took a group of students to the museum. I was surprised and totally unprepared for two things that occurred during the visit. The first was that I had not been there for decades. My mother had taken us as very small children: I think I must have been about five at the time. The result was that this particular room affected my memory and a whole host of things I thought I had forgotten came flooding back, quite suddenly. Secondly it was the first time I ha

Monostich 1.
Both war and peace - where do you think they begin? ©Jeff Guess 2017