paradox

FAW National Cherry Festival Poetry Competition, 2024. Highly commended and commended awards

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FELLOWSHIP OF AUSTRALIAN WRITERS NSW

(Supporting and encouraging Australian writers)

National Cherry Festival Writing Competition

( Lambing Flat Regional at Young NSW)

RESULT SHEET 2023

ADULT SHORT STORY SECTION

FIRST PLACE: FAIR GAME ALAN HEWETT Wodonga   VIC

SECOND PLACE: I OWE IT ALL TO YOU DAD MIKE WOODHOUSE Bowral NSW

THIRD PLACE: I’M SORRY VIKKI BYE Yarrawonga VIC

HIGHLY COMMENDED:

THE TRENCHES                               LEE McKERRACHER Raby NSW

A BUMP IN THE ROAD         GREG SCHMIDT  Claremont Meadows NSW

DIVINE INTERVENTION IRENE DALGETY TIMPONE Atherton QLD

COMMENDED:

WHAT CAME AFTER ELLE VIDOVICH Tugun QLD  

COFFEE CRAVINGS DIANNE WIGGINS  Bonny Hills NSW

THE LESSON BARRY RILEY Woy Woy NSW

ADULT POETRY

FIRST PLACE:  FIELD TO PAGEJULIE BUTLERWalchaNSW

SECOND PLACE: IF I DON’T REMEMBER MARIA C BARREDA-HANSON                                    Bandra Point NSW

THIRD PLACE: FAITH OF MY FATHER CATHERINE LEE Mona Vale NSW  

HIGHLY COMMENDED:

THE WEDDING DRESS                  MARGARET ARMSTRONG Bateman’s Bay NSW

IT LIES THERE ALONE                    ILANA KRUEGER

PARADOX                       COLLEEN KEATING Normanhurst NSW

COMMENDED:

ON DRIFTING CLOUD                    COLLEEN KEATING Normanhurst NSW

ONE COOL EVENING IN MAY       KATE MAXWELL Kirribilli NSW

SMALL TOWN SIREN                      JANE COTTEE Oaks Estate ACT

DECEMBER 5: OUR MONTH TO BE THE PEACE WE WISH FOR by Colleen Keating  

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MONDAY 5TH DECEMBER

Day 5

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke

Finding paradox while watering the garden

under the lower shady leaves
it hides
wanting only time
cycle time
clues left in the nibbled holes
on my green osmocoted leaves
on my  salmon rose that makes me sing
Mary Olivers words –
Sunshine and showers . . .
its morning and again
I am that lucky person who is in it .

i spent yesterday mesmerised
by white butterflies
somersaulting around the garden
in intoxicated revelry
and they too made me sing –
Mary Olivers words
its morning and again
I am that lucky person who is in it .

today  I find my rose
caught in time cycles
cocoons  pouches of eggs
i say   not on my rose
and it reveals itself
humbly like a koen
in my searching hands
still making me sing
Mary Oliver words –
I am that lucky person who is in it

Also a  family birthday for our 11 year old grandson with family, food and fun. Lovely to watch the grandchildren growing up so beautifully under the guidance of our children.