We live in a constructed world. I wonder how you grew up. Were your parents strict or lenient? Did they believe in God, or a better future, or the power of the mind? Were they private, or participants in public life? Whatever your background, you will view this site differently. We all, from birth, assemble our ideas of what the world is like.

Tuesday, March 24, 2015. TUESDAY POEM BIRD by Pablo Neduda. It was passed from one bird to another,. The whole gift of the day. The day went from flute to flute,. Went dressed in vegetation,. In flights which opened a tunnel. Through the wind would pass. To where birds were breaking open. The dense blue air -. And there, night came in. When I returned from so many journeys,. I stayed suspended and green. Between sun and geography -.

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Towards the end of last year I went hunting for some replacement Allen Curnow. In the NZ poetry shelves of Arty Bees. Curnow was absent that day, but this turned up instead. University of Otago Bibliography Room imprint of Jerusalem Sonnets.

You know, sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery. And I promise you, something great will come of it. Benjamin Mee, We Bought a Zoo. Last summer on the longest day of the year, Mae and I sat at the top of a mountain looking out over the valley below. There is something about taking those twenty seconds of insane courage, ju.