For many years, I thought myself incapable of writing anything beyond an essay assignment, and not even able to do that very well. In 1993 I enrolled in a local Adult Education class for Creative Writing, where I was forced to start writing, and loved it!

Since then I have written a small number of short stories, and an even smaller number of poems. Here are some of them:

New Beginnings - a short story about my great3grandfather Tom Green, based on fact

Frances, of the Carswell clan - a poem about births, deaths and marriages!

River of Blood - I visited Port Arthur only months before Martin Bryant did, and was greatly affected by what happened there

I have always liked... looking at the sky

The Photo - thoughts about a photo of my father and myself

Orange Grove Primary School - memories of the primary school I attended in the 1950s and '60s

Grief - a poem of despair and hope, written in the early morning after a particularly bad night.

Love - written for a suffering friend.

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