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Day 20 — winter sports + *bling*

Another poem inspired by my housemate’s weekend activities, writing sitting, baking, as my iPhone screen overheated. I love today’s Factoid.

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Round 2: winter sports

admittedly it’s been over 30 years
since i last donned the sprigs 
& dashed out into the mud
as bewildered teenage boy
in the middle of his gap year 
on his way to university 
still terribly uncertain 
of his own personality, his destiny 

however 

one thing for certain
neverever sunburned
watching or playing 
winter sports before 
like i did today 
sitting on the sidelines
tentatively keeping score
through the heat haze

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Day 20 – TIL I’ve gone back to a fact I found a couple of days that I just couldn’t let go.

*bling*

one page told me
pirates believed
gold earrings 
improved 
their eyesight

& i didn’t seek 
corroboration
because i so want
this to be true
i’d be crushed if it wasn’t

Day 18 — vision + OH&S for our eyes

The book of poetry I read yesterday was a welcome relief. Winning Words: Inspiring Poems for Everyday Life this book really does live up to its blurb. Reading/researching climate change can be extremely depressing/debilitating. There’s a lot of hard work to be done … & it really does feel like a near impossible task. But reading so many of these poems made me feel excited & alive & tingled with hope & optimism & what not. So I wanted to try capturing that in my poem. 

I tied it in with a wonderful Joel Pett cartoon which became a meme in its own right. A disgruntled man right up the back of the auditorium of a Climate summit asks fellow conference goer a frustrated question. Only the first verse is shared.

The Poetic Factoid is a perfect example of the form. Me being silly.

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vision
What if it’s a big hoax & we create a better world for nothing?

What if we : take better care : of our home : of the natural world
. : value it : appreciate it for what it is : rather than what it can give us
What if we : redress : past inequalities : lift people out of poverty :
. : end the immorality : of billionaires
What if we : make the world : fairer : for every human 
. : regardless : of which country : they call home
. : remove the reasons : people flee their homelands

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Day 18 – TIL about OH&S for your vision 

20-20-20 vision 

when working at our screens
apparently we should 
be employing
the 20-20-20 rule

look at something twenty 
feet away every twenty 
minutes for twenty 
seconds

turns out i’ve been doing this for years
but bosses got made at me
called it — daydreaming!