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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.

Christmas Candle for Rosie’s Babe.

Whose baby? Rosemary, baby, where are you? Rosemary, smelling like a brine pit, Rosemary, light a lamp, listen to the flame, see the sound. Sight the line remembrance brings. Eternal light holds fast fleeting flame. A skip away, a shout … Continue reading

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My Crazy Artist Friends

Penned friend to sober alliance, blessed, blissed, I write with my crazy artist friends. Homily to prudence, still laughing, statued in brilliance, stoic in stanza, I pen freedom. Laugh at ludicrous cacophony caught in harmony with unending chaos. Heart’s resilience … Continue reading

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MT

The space of space holds in its hand the heart of life. Beating in nothingness, pulsing its beat unheard in the void.

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Don’t Read This Before, After or During Meals, or … If Afraid of Dying.

When dunny cart of death pulls up outside to collect your lifetime of crap, it’s stinking load assaulting your olfactory, will you cry? ‘Not yet, not ready, still sitting on throne reading Sunday Times. I’ve seeds to sow, crops to … Continue reading

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Transparent Tips

Hollywood holds no hell for me, I see through all that celluloid. All that illusion of life a mask, a task to set your mind awry. Hollywood,- escape- that leads to prison, risen from false hopes, illusion. Hollywood, your nightmare … Continue reading

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Dovetail

I am the last lost soul of somethings that never mattered, matted in the cord of life. Do you hear me, not singing nor soulfull but still. ?? Do you feel my presence on the wind, winnowed, wilful by force … Continue reading

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To Dad Who Died Tomorrow.

I am a seeker of words and ways that wind the cord of life to capture time. I am the last lost soul of somethings that never mattered, matted in the cord of life.

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Pinnacle of Success

I went to the circus Saturday avo- * there were clowns, hundreds of them, seated in stands with circus animals. Front row elephants sat on specially reinforced seats. Behind them sat dancing dogs, prancing bears, and slippery seals. A gallery … Continue reading

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Another Moment

What moment this moment and its relatives. Guests at a feast of flies. What moment, (with) butterfly nexts to catch the moment. Smaller, smaller, than an ant’s breath.

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Tiddle Tat Dirty Rat

Will you read me when I am gone? Will you reach inside the monitor to see what lies behind these words? Or, will you delete this nothingness? Time, the dirty dobber will tell.

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