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Poems about homes: your Friday night poetry reading on video

June 12, 2020

Here’s this week’s reading: poems about homes. I’ve lived in at least 25 homes in my 80 years, so I appreciate finally being settled.

A small shack (LUCKY) and a person sleeping rough under a tree in a storm (NOT). Let me count the homes.

Let me count the homes—a poem about not being homeless

August 16, 2019

In New Zealand as elsewhere, far too many are homeless and forced to be sleeping rough on the streets or in parks. I am immensely privileged to have had at least 25 homes. Even my most primitive shelter had a bed, an electric kettle, and running water.

Little home, lucky home, big home

August 23, 2016

“Have you ever paused to contemplate the idea of home?” asks Robyn Haynes in her blog, Big Dreams for a Tiny Garden. On a trip to Outback Queensland, she felt a deep connection with the land, and her sense of home expanded from house, garden and family to something much broader—Australia. (I’ve distorted her thought flow by summarising it — […]