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About 12457adlib

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.

SOMNAMBULANT

Posted on August 9, 2025 by 12457adlib

We sleepwalk toward jaws of the Beast. Carefully sedated since early childhood daze. While silent voice roars. ‘Sitting up straight, arms folded, eyes on the blackboard. You kids will need a diploma to cut grass by the time you leave … Continue reading →

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UNTITLED

Posted on October 31, 2024 by 12457adlib

UNTITLED Blank as all get out. But it doesn’t matter Blank is bold, loud, screaming for a word. Waiting, in the blankness of mind, with time and other nothingness. Waiting for- nothing in particular. Blank is abundance, opulence couched in … Continue reading →

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SYMPHONY

Posted on May 24, 2024 by 12457adlib

And then there is a silence, the loudest silence ever heard. No sibilance, no sound, but silence. ‘Did the music die?’ They ask. Was it natural death? A catastrophe, cacophony causing deafness. Bells muted, melted for bombs and bullets. Was … Continue reading →

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WHOA WHOA

Posted on May 16, 2024 by 12457adlib

Whoa, whoa, of all things seen. What is it of comings and goings, of highways and byways. Whoa, whoa of childhood rhymes of flags and flowers. What is it of comings and goings? Whoa, whoa,  the answer known. But still … Continue reading →

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PENDULUM

Posted on April 25, 2024 by 12457adlib

 (ASK NOT FOR WHOM THE PENDULUM SWINGS)  09 /12/21 PENDULUM SWINGS, CHILDLIKE WE BELIEVE IN ITS RETURN. BUT WHAT IF A BIGGER PENDULUM SWINGS, COUNTS THE TIME WHEN ALL PENDULUMS STOP MID FLIGHT. THE TIME OF TO,  BUT NO FRO. … Continue reading →

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THE GAME

Posted on January 11, 2024 by 12457adlib

Life is all choices and chances cheap the choice, dear the closing. Cheap the choice, until invoice arrives, it’s fine print pointing out lucks reluctance to fall your way. Many paths chance can take                                                    to hold us to our … Continue reading →

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MARKED

Posted on January 4, 2024 by 12457adlib

MARKED Why have you  put me here?  Cries bookmark. Is this my destiny, jammed in between these words so foreign? ‘A concise Dictionary  of the Latvian Language.’ Really!! Put me with Einstein. I’ll be relatively happy there.

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TOMORROW ARRIVED YESTERDAY

Posted on October 26, 2023 by 12457adlib

Tomorrow arrived yesterday,                and no one knew the difference. It’s like that when you’re in the clouds and clods plod by. Seeking solace in the sounds of nothing. Seeking something nothing can buy. So by and by you question … Continue reading →

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WOODSTOCK GENERATION

Posted on August 22, 2023 by 12457adlib

Woodstock Music Festival, three days of peace and love, an ‘Aquarian exposition.’ Woodstock Generation where are you now? Woodstock Generation you saw, unborn in mind’s eye, a world of peace, each looking out for the other. Sharing, caring. Clean water, … Continue reading →

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IS

Posted on June 29, 2023 by 12457adlib

There was a time when time refused to be. Search parties were sent out, Looking for that not found. ‘What time will you return? They were asked as they left, ‘ They shrugged shoulders. ‘Does it matter? We search for … Continue reading →

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