Lew
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‘This is not sorrow, this is work, I build a cairn of words … .’ J.S. Manifold
What’s left of you now, Lew?
Cartons full of memories,
pieces of paper,
dusting,
musting old boxes
of life.
Where are your photos?
The stills of life in motion
moved by tide,
by current,
undercurrent.
are they in those cartons,
so precious to you?
I can’t burn photos .’
The voice said,
sadness in every syllable.
Where will we build a monument to you?
In the moving sea you loved so?
Or the place of palms?
Or is it as simple
as
this pile
of words,
stacked
one
on
the other?
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I'm a Chaplain at Townsville's hospitals and also teach Calm Abiding Meditation to any one who's interested.
I have facilitated Calm Abiding Meditation for soldiers with post traumatic stress disorder and find this an amazing experience.
I work part time as an usher at Townsville's Civic Theatre and get to see some great plays and musicals, as well as some not so great, school speech nights!
(Unbelievably, this theatre has the highest seat occupancy rate of any theatre in Australia.)
I also work as an invigilator at the local Uni. (bet that's got you looking for your dictionaries!)
A group of writers ('My Crazy Artist Friends') gives me live fed back on my poems.
They are the survivors of Writers in Townsville Society (WITS) of which I was president /secretary for over ten years.
I enjoy writing poetry and am grateful to my grade 12 English teacher, Mrs Grimmer for coaxing the dead poets off the page and into the class room.
Hope you enjoy reading my work.
Stay happy, keep reading,
Phil Heang.
poetrytownsville 
I love how you capture the personality and life of your subjects Phil Always an adventure.
Thanks Kez.
Phil