by David Swain | 10 Feb, 2012
Helen Gould, New South Wales Regional Meeting The willie wagtails Singing all the moonlight long Young love once mine. Flies buzz against glass Beyond a door is ajar Am I trapped or free? This Haiku was written with Jean Talbo and Mark Macleod during...
by David Swain | 10 Feb, 2012
Jean Talbot, New South Wales Regional Meeting and others. Renga Afternoon sunshine: Brown, green, brown, blue, brown again are the lake floor’s stripes. Later, as the sun goes down, a shadow creeps over it all. Morning sunshine, suffusing gold into morning mists:...
by David Swain | 28 Nov, 2011
Susan Clarke, Queensland Regional Meeting I was led to Silver Wattle by so many things. I wanted to go on a retreat to explore in writing my future, my past, my spirituality, I wanted to explore the adult almost fully emerged from a chrysalis in which she’d been...
by David Swain | 7 Oct, 2011
Nansen Robb and Gina Price, West Australia Regional Meeting We head for the scarp in the late afternoon, led by our three rambunctious young men, Atticus and Aaron Toyne and Nansen Robb, with two young boys hot on their heels. Th ere are a few kangaroos out for their...
by David Swain | 6 Jul, 2011
By Jim Palmer, Victoria Regional Meeting. This year, the long weekend of Easter and Anzac Day brought F/friends of all ages to Silver Wattle. The event was billed as ‘No Time for War: the Easter Story and Anzac’. The program was designed to be inclusive of all ages,...
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