G'day
Winter Downunder
Welcome to Batsword
Each friend represents a world in us,
a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting
that a new world is born. - Anais Nin (1903-1977)
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity,
and let my efforts be known by their results.
- Emily Bronte (1818-1848)
Reflections on the way we are after bombs and bread dropped on dead unfed martyrs, sinners and saints alike, unwise, unsure and still not understanding how true peace, real love, comes with bread and roses
- Barbara A Taylor 2001
PEACE AND LOVE
starve or
vote for me
mugabe's last wish
©barbaraataylorjune2008
Go, Jiang Xiaojuan!
her village devastated
breastfeeds nine babies
this madonna of China
Mother of the Year
©barbaraataylormay2008
kids stolen at night
turned into slaves
or killing machines
©barbaraataylormay2008
in paddy fields
the splintered hulls
of capsized boats
©barbaraataylormay2008
made in China carbon offsets
the Snow Lion flag increasing emissions
banned in China trading agronomy
©barbaraataylorapril2008 ©barbaraataylorapril2008
making women
female advancement
without the y
©barbaraataylormay2008
this six-ring circus
a journey of harmony behind steel fences
©barbaraataylorapril2008
blessed be!
a million dollars per day
the rottweiler's trip
©barbaraataylorapril2008
shock and awe
still counting the dead
five years on
©barbaraataylormarch2008
outside the temple
stinging eyes
Tibet
©barbaraataylormarch2008
healing
in a message stick
of sorry
Sorry Day, Australia, 13 February 2008
in India
untouchable conversions---
becoming human
©barbaraataylormay2007
no energy left
to light up our world--
the tipping point
©barbaraataylorjuly2007
Five years on
Frightened World
Lamentations
Lamentations
Five Years On
Frightened World
September 11 2006
white flags wave
a choice is made
my mother or my child?
©barbaraatayloruly2006
RU486
life giving
taking for some
©barbaraataylor2006
woman on top-
tall poppies
falling
©barbaraataylor2005
first published Folly 2006
slippery
footseteps
seeking snow shelter
©barbaraataylorjanuary2006
29 August 2005
Kill to have fresh water, food
Abandoned like rats in a sinking ship
Tricked into moving to more danger
Rescued six disastrous days later
Interred by bursting dikes
Nature is the greatest force
America cannot control
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©barbaraataylorseptember2005
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our world wobbled
great waves swamped
swallowed shores in paradise
©barbaraataylordecember2004
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Lines of Constant Pressure
R estless
I sobars
T ell
A ll
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©barbaraataylorseptember2005
Downtown Darfur
overburdened and bony
a grey stallion collapses
overburdened and bony
fleeing refugees stop
go back, give this animal
a proper burial
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©barbaraataylorjanuary2005
trains of death in foggy nights
let not the past
become the future
©barbaraataylorjanuary2005
Women Poetry Australia
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green goddess
bless us all
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