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Winter Downunder




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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





K A T R I N A
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

~~~

©barbaraataylorseptember2005



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our world wobbled
great waves swamped
swallowed shores in paradise

©barbaraataylordecember2004
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Lines of Constant Pressure

Restless
  Isobars
      Tell
           All

~ ~~ ~ ~~
©barbaraataylorseptember2005


Downtown Darfur

overburdened and bony
               a grey stallion collapses
overburdened and bony
              fleeing refugees stop
go back, give this animal
                     a proper burial

~

©barbaraataylorjanuary2005




trains of death in foggy nights
let not the past
become the future


©barbaraataylorjanuary2005







                                       Women Poetry Australia










                                                       may the
                                                           green goddess
                                                             bless us all



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